IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects

By Doug Cowen, Penn State

About a trillion tiny particles called neutrinos pass through you every second. Created during the Big Bang, these "relic” neutrinos exist throughout the entire universe, but they can't harm you. In fact, only one of them is likely to lightly tap an atom

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