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Scientists detect highest-energy ghost particle ever seen — where did it come from?
Scientists have detected the highest-energy ghost particle neutrino ever, but did it come from a supermassive black hole ...
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Scientists detect most powerful neutrino ever at 220 million billion electron volt
A neutrino with an estimated energy of 220 PeV – that’s 220 million billion electron volts – slammed into the seawater near ...
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Tour the Spectrum
Light, heat, radio transmissions, and medical X-rays may not seem all that similar ... and are delivered by massless particles called photons. The only thing that differentiates one type of ...
High-energy cosmic neutrino detected under Mediterranean Sea
Using an observatory under construction deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily, scientists have detected a ghostly ...
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From photons to protons: Argonne team makes breakthrough in high-energy particle detection
Researchers at Argonne have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate ...
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Gamma-ray bursts challenge theoretical models
Gamma rays are highly energetic photons, and very high-energy gamma rays carry with them energies of trillions of electron volts, a level that is hundreds of billions of times greater than visible ...
Curious Kids: Where does black fall on the color spectrum?
Radiation within the visible spectrum can appear black if it is low in power – more specifically, lower in power than its ...