{
  "id": 6285775,
  "title": "A photon that challenges Einstein: According to current physics, it should never have reached Earth",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/a-photon-that-challenges-einstein-according-to-current-physics-it",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-08T13:40:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-photon-einstein-current-physics-earth.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "How did a photon survive a journey of more than 2 billion light-years when, according to known physics, it should have been absorbed long before reaching Earth? This is the question at the heart of a new study by Giorgio Galanti (INAF) and Marco Roncadelli (INFN), accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}