A neutrino with more energy than we've ever seen before was picked up by a detector on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, and it seems to have a distant cosmic origin
that ripped through a new particle detector in the Mediterranean Sea has taken physicists by surprise, and it could be a first tantalising glimpse into some of the universe’s most cataclysmic events, such as the merging of supermassive black holes.”, barely interact with most matter because they are nearly massless and have no electric charge.
The signal looked promising, showing up as a nearly horizontal bright line in the detector. The researchers think this was created by small, electron-like particles called muons that were produced in the wake of the neutrino slamming through the detector and gave off light that KM3NeT’s detectors could pick up.When the researchers first tentatively announced the result in 2024, they were still calculating the exact energy of the particle.
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