The researcher at the American space agency NASA, say that they have discovered an alternate source of cosmic energy from a previously unidentified particles near the solar system. 

The latest issue of science journal ‘Nature’ includes the latest discovery, which was the result of a study carried out by the Advanced Thin Ionisation Calorimeter (ATIC) collaboration led by scientists at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

The researchers say, “The new findings show an unexpected surplus of cosmic ray electrons at very high energy – 300-800 billion electron volts – that must come from a previously unidentified source or from the annihilation of very exotic theoretical particles used to explain dark matter.”

Mr John P. Wefel, principal investigator of the ATIC project and a professor at Louisiana University, reported, “This electron excess cannot be explained by the standard model of cosmic ray origin. There must be another source relatively near us that is producing these additional particles.” It is believed by the researchers that the new energy source must be within the range of about 3,000 light years from the sun.