Nonilex on Nostr: An international team of scientists announced Wed the detection of an extraordinary, ...

An international team of scientists announced Wed the detection of an extraordinary, elusive #neutrino — a tiny, subatomic particle that flitted at close to the speed of light toward an undersea detector off the coast of Sicily carrying about 30k times the #energy generated by the largest particle accelerator on #earth.

The observation, unveiled in the journal #Nature, revealed the highest-energy neutrino ever detected.

#KM3NeT #astrophysics #science #cool
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08543-1