Given several black holes orbiting one another, and trillions of particles entering their realm every second, it is entirely conceivable a particle would enter in such a way that it undergoes multiple gravitational slingshots near the event horizons, giving it near-lightspeed velocity.

Black hole Slingshot. If a particle is caught by the curvature of a black hole but just avoids the horizon, a tremendous amount of acceleration would be imparted on it.

as far as i know, Ursa Major is a galactic highway so, pretty sure this is residual matter from the warp drive, klingons usually, they don't care too much about the space ecology

Should be called the bowling ball dropped at chest height particle.

Your description of the plasma particles being bounced and accelerating between the shockwave and the surface of an e.g. star sounds a lot like a Laser. Sure, it's not light amplification, but perhaps could be called a Particle Hyper-Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation: A Phaser :-) ! Beam me up Scotty!

03:42 Hmm that does not looks like a square grid that i'm familiar with. Looks like a stop sign had a baby with the stop hand icon. Good and informative vid.

My farticles travel faster than the speed of smell. "OMG!" is the standard reaction.

Thats great, ive created a um blackhole in a garage using IR escape velocity spinning faster than light on microscale, light couldnt catch up with spinning holo stroboscope at 300000 tachymeter.etc Also two geiger tube interferometrically will make cosmicray detector with theremino software, no scintillators used

the bouncing back and fourth shown at around @8:43 reminds me a lot of LASER

i really like the bouncing analogy. makes a lot of sense

"Ludicrous speed" LOL! Nice reference to Space Balls

It has to be Alf!

Pffttt. If you think that's fast, you should see my cat sneeze.

I don’t know much. But my thinking would be that the particle is probably moving around half the speed of light from the direction of the universal expansion, and the earth is moving outwardly caught in the tidal expansion. Thus from our perspective it is moving at nearly the speed of light.

Maybe it was a Boltzman particle that spontaneous appeared out of a freak massive quantum fluctuation?

My first guess is that these are particles accelerated in a cumulative manner over time by a supermassive black hole that "escape" via some process not yet known, but perhaps akin to jets from the poles.

For those thinking 'nearby'.. 2:40 "One of the local clusters of our galaxy" I ASSUME means "one of the galaxies in our local cluster". The local cluster is bettern known as the local group and is a cluster of galaxies, of which ours is one. It's a cluster containing multiple galaxies. So 'relatively nearby' is still a mind numbing distance measured in the millions of lightyears. Andromeda is the closest galaxy to ours and it's a bit over two and a half million lightyears off. A quick Google search for 'local cluster' didn't show anything relevant but if I've misunderstood what that sentence actually means, then someone please let me know. It's nonsensical otherwise. Edit: 3:02 The screenshotted article at this point has the words "supercluster of galaxies" at the top of the screen. So I think I'm fairly safe in my interpretation of that odd sentence.

Are there particle detectors arrays in space? And it is possible to create a particle collider in space that uses natural cosmic rays as a source of collisions with particles generated by the collider?

Great description of the speed of that particle. I mean, I knew already but, GAH!

There's been extra galactic gamma ray sources reported recently. I've detected Iron cosmic ray decay in my basement particle detector and fogging the entire detector. Is it merely coincidence or cause/effect, but not in that order effect preceding cause, depending on relativity in a Quantum universe? Higgs transient events? Great video.

My idea is a black hohle you can go very close to an event horizon to absurd speed but then it got that extra kick and it flung out either that or alien morse code D

ok stupid question time.. if E=mc2 and this is super high energy .. could this help explain missing mass in the universe? or dark energy ?

It's impossible given our knowledge of physics, but that doesn't stop us suggesting possibilities that still don't explain it.

Me: making no notable contribution Some dude: gets in a hot air balloon during a solar eclipse with his ion radiation detector and proves cosmic rays exist.

I'm old enough to remember a pop music group from the '80s, a group with a strange name: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Change the first word into "Orchestrated" and we have a description of what is ongoing: stellar levels of energy exchanges occurring outside of stars, within the vast darkness of the Universe. An example, the surface of the Sun is at 6000 °C but it is surrounded by the Sun Corona at 1,000,000 °C. This to say, the energy has ways to travel from a very energetic body to a far region of the Space and manifests there as a stationary volume where the EM fields are ludicrously strong. It is not necessarily a front, but a series of stationary sectors with increasing charge, so that a proton is accelerated sequentially - just like in a railgun. In my hypothesis, the particle is not bouncing like the photon between the two mirrors of a laser, but is proceeding like an electron between the dinodes of a photomultiplier. Thank you Prof. Miles for your exemplary videos. Greetings, Anthony

Are we able to calculate the rate of slow down imposed on the HMG particles by the CMBR?

The explanation about the particle bouncing sounds analogous to a laser, where the pressure wave is the half silvered mirror. I wonder is a collapsing mag field could act like a shaped charge………. Where the repulsive nature of the protons acts to concentrate the energy and therefore speed, like the copper jet in an anti tank round?

There are some serious misunderstandings with regard to physics. Until we get them straight the science community will always dumbfounded by observations One important misunderstanding is the nature of em radiation. It is NOT a velocity in vacuum; it IS a rate of induction. Consider the implications of this difference.

I have to think there's some natural particle accelerator in the sky that we just haven't discovered yet. The first thing I think of is - do we know what happens when two black holes collide? If a proton is whizzing around the accretion disk, I know we're taught that nothing can escape a black hole, but another black hole probably has enough pull to strip mass away and the interaction of the gravitational fields is likely to let some rogue extemely-high-velocity particles escape

Warp drive shockwave front?

This happened so you could explain gravity and how it starts, in a region of space with no gravity on weak gravitational force, ... When particles interact with each other they behave differently in space compared to earth. ,at some point so many particles are bunched up together, in out atmosphere or in space ie gas cloud. cosmic Ray's interact , just like you have shown in this video, cosmos Ray's or other energetic particals can only influence the particles on the outside of a mass of particles cloud, unless its energy is unknown (higher than), unable to penetrate the inner mass from bumping into so many other particles and changing direction, a unorganised process that becomes organised finding order with interaction. If a chain reaction has already started, a calculation of mechanisms that have their own purpose find order to create a structured system of movement dictated by all forces associated with a partical. They start moving in order pushing the particals not associated with this order , out until they also find a place where their charge fit/ finds balance. (Comics rays divide oxygen into atomic oxygen, on the edge of our space, as a example) Since earth already has gravity, I guess all these particles in our atmosphere find their position to form elements we can understand, or we have discovered a process that was here long before us, maybe it has always been that way... Maybe we are just partical bunched up in a form, trying to discover ourselves.... Sorry if I didnt explain well, but one day soon, I well spend a few days explaining this, even though its known already, but still hasn't been associated with the process surrounding gravity....

what would be the theoretical change if the super high energy particles were made of something other than protons -- e.g. boron atoms?

Hmm. My antimatter drive must be sputtering. I’ll have to get it tuned next week.

What if the particles are in fact coming from AGNs but are being accelerated through gravity assists as they travel around other galactic centers/massive stars before hitting us?

Nobody ever answer my hypothesis of the friction of matter and space. Anyway, I believe the only energy abundant could be the Black Hole Jet Stream, but maybe also Super/Hypernova explosions, powerful enough pulsars and Dwarf Stars poles, besides the Sun of course; but what about Dark Energy? Maybe laced with it matter can be laced with Dark Matter and form a different particle; since apparently particles are expression of Energy that bend Space, so I don't see why not bend the Light Speed Limit

It´s a warp drive signature. When the warp field is slitly flucuating a relativitic particle may escape.

Already saw a video on this a few days ago. Interesting topic though

My guess: The particles are exhaust from an alien ion engine.👽

Re The OMG particle; I believe it carried about fifty joules of energy, which is the recommended energy of an arrow to kill a deer.

If mass can distort/stretch/pull on the space around it, would an object with a large amount of energy also be able to influence the space around it? Would such influence aid in explaining these particles?

My guess, as a person with no real knowledge on this stuff, is they escape from black hole. Like they are circling inside the accretion disk of the black hole and getting a super gravitational bump before escaping. That's why we can't find the origin. They are from black holes that don't have a visible accretion disk. There are a ton of black holes out there and most of them are invisible.

6:48 Funny sunbeds.

They discovered that the particals don't come from arson? That's a relief, I'm glad the galaxy isn't filled with pyromaniacs.

I like and concur with your dark sarcasm :-)

Did "The Three Body Problem" answer the question of where the particles came from? 😮

🤦‍♀️ UNBELIEVABLE 🤦‍♀️ They still blame all of their failures on “dark 👻 ghost). Pathetic 😒

If a spacecraft was travelling towards us at near light speed, the light waves of the ship would be compressed to a higher frequency light on the leading edge. It means it couod be giving off gamma rays even though lower frequency light as radio waves would be shifted upward to become visible light. (Stealth could be negative or 180 degree shifted radio waves to cancel out the radio waves so the visible light of the ship is eliminated).

I have two guesses what this might be. First: Space wizard casting fireball at a deep dark old one out past Niburu orbit. Second: Klingon bird of Prey doing doughnuts around Jupiter.

Some drugged guy got too high and had a spark in his mind and POW ! OMG particle...

Aliens, Its definitely aliens. Id wager Lizard people trying to bait us into an intergalactic war by firing annoying ping-pong particles at us. Akin to when you were young and someone would copy everything you said until you eventually snapped.

50exa-elevtronvolt is about 8J. If that energy would be delivered by an ion shower into 8 kgs of tissue that would mean an exposure of 1 Gy for that 8kgs of tissue. A whole body dose of 10 times that could be fatal, so it would be quite unhealthy to run into the OMG particle. I also wondered if you could feel a push if such a particle would hit you. For particles close to the lightspeed we can approximate pc=E, so p=E/c, a 50 EeV particle administers a momentum of 2.7•10^-8 Ns, which would (by itself) be absolutely unnoticeable. This is where the gorila-throwing- bowling-balls analogy goes wrong.

At 5:40 I think you meant 299,792,305 m/s not km/s.

It could be a message from an advanced civilization.

Im sure this has been considered and refuted, but you didnt bring it up in the video. Since we arent detecting the particle itself, but rather its damage (shower of particles), perhaps these arent individual particles. But a number of particles travelling together. For the 240 EeV particle, whats to stop it from being 10 * 24 EeV particles that are microns apart. Arriving at almost the exact same moment. Causing the shower. Its like looking at the damage caused by 10,000 * 1 ton bombs vs a single 10 kiloton nuclear bomb (ignoring radiation), it might be hard to deduce which of those two scenarios caused the damage. Or, i guess im saying, they could be confused for one another. (Again, ignoring radiation.) Also, again. Im sure there is a reason this has been disproven. But you didnt say why, so i ask it.

I'm watching this video while sitting on the toilet waiting on a couple of my own OMG particles 💩💩💩🤣🤣🤣

It's just aliens ducking with us and shooting particles at earth for a laugh

Dark matter supernova?

They are hitchhiking on the waves of the photons, gaining almost similar speeds before they separate..

This one should be called the OMFG particle. 😁

*UHECR* . . . I pronounce that as You-Cur, same way as the card game Euchre.

Spherical mirrors? Really? Are you sure you don't mean hemispheres or convex or similar? I'm not familiar with the Fly's Eye array at all, but a spherical mirror seems like a really unusual element in any kind of detection array. Can you recommend any content here that explores how this array works and why it needs shiny reflective balls?

If some particles are moving at the speed of light or faster, they may not be able to be detected ....I am musing....So how many of these things are really being slung out ??

maybe its stuff that got super compressed then ejected out the other end of a black hole

It is 100% a warp drive energy signature!

“Our” universe, ie, the universe we can perceive with all our tools, is limited to the speed of light. Light curves. That means sunlight EVENTUALLY returns to earth. You know that “long channel” going out from earth opposite the sun? The universe we perceive is a black hole.

If we can't rule out dark matter, we also can't rule out aliens. Could be a "Hello" beacon.

Can an oh my god particle be so energetic that it keeps up with light, plank length for plank length, throughout the entire observable universe? So like, if an ohmygod particle moves 1^1000 plank lengths in 500 billion years, and the photon moves 1^1000+1 plank lengths in 500 billion years, won't it only begin to lose the race after 500 billion years have passed? So any measurement done prior to that will show both particles moving equal distances? And does that mean "infinite energy" can be quantified if the timespan or distance traveled is known? Since like, adding more energy to that ohmygod particle won't change the distance traveled if measured less than 500 billion years?

Underrated

Perhaps it is related to the gravity drives that aliens are using to zip around the galaxy.

Ooooor, and hear me out, aliens.

I like to think that they are exhausted particles from an alien vessel.

The particles are stray pew pew fire from a distant spaceship fight xD Pew pew pew Oh no I missed

I'm very excited about this. The particles are accelerated incredibly like this somehow. Didn't require a supermassive explosion or something. Imagine we figure out how its done. We can use those super energetic particles as fuel for space ships that can travel between stars. We can solve earth energy problem. We can try to reach to the next kardashev civilization scale. This can turn out to be huge.

What percentage of the speed of light was it traveling?

What would happen to a person if struck by a particle such as this?

These happen when particles get stuck on the warp bubble of alien craft.

Truns out to be stray rounds from a galactic war.

if history channel has taught me anything.. it’s that when in doubt…

My bad , you can call me dadson not god, my Saturday night love particle likely bounced off the moon. I'll have to watch out for that secondary line of evidence lol

Maybe the source of OMG particles is matter-antimatter annihilation?

How come the particles have so "little" energy. I would expect any particle with mass ( which i assume have mass since the only particle that doesnt have mass is a photon,), would hit earth like nuclear bombs? Any mass traveling at 99,99999999% the speed of light would have near infinite amount of energy?

Aliens! It has to be an alien attack

Something is probing us 😮

I can barely understand the science behind this and you want me to suggest where I think that they might emanate from! I'll get back to you on that one. Maybe when I have finished a PhD in Atomic Particles.

Any chance these are an exotic form of muon?

Is it possible these high energy particles are caused by space trolls throwing rocks at us?

When two black holes collide they cause these particles.

Pevatron.... Gzk limit. Well bh will still bag ya. What would it mean if these wave particles went even a hint above the speed of light Mmm?

"goddamn" particle.

Why is everyone always shocked when a previously held belief gets shattered by new developments. It's historical one might say😛

And no cop tried to ticket this one?

stay at home, batten down the hatches and put on your tin foil hat

No clue. Not a physicist, so just a crazy spitball: What is the speed that Hawking radiation will skoot away from an evaporating black hole?

Hahahahaha... why not just a malfunction of detectors

Its type VI being

2:10 NEINN

Tachion?

Well I'll just throw this out there: Maybe the OMG's are some kind of exotic photon that has a little tiny bit of mass. We could call them "heavy photons". How cool would that be if such photons turned out to be real.

... maybe a photon crashed into this tiny partical and sent it on its way 😂😂

If the particle has the same energy as a dropped bowling ball, that means it should blow your finger off, right?