#particles

One in Ten Billion

There is a particle that lives for about one and a half trillionths of a second, and physicists have spent four decades waiting for it to die in one particular way.

The Code Room · EN

Ghost Particles Are Exposing Hidden Black Holes. They Just Won a Nobel Prize.

PBS Space Time

IceCube detects ghost particles with 10 billion times the energy of solar neutrinos

Mysterious particles called neutrinos constantly stream through our bodies, and scientists are now detecting incredibly powerful versions arriving from distant cosmic sources using a massive observatory buried in Antarctic ice. These elusive “ghost particles” could hold extraordinary clues about the Big Bang, extreme cosmic events, and some of the universe’s greatest mysteries.

ScienceDaily · EN