The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Of the 100 trillion neutrinos that pass through you every second, most come from the sun or Earth’s atmosphere. But a smattering of the ...

When two neutron stars collide, they unleash some of the most powerful forces in the universe, creating ripples in spacetime, ...

Durham researchers Dark energy and black holes are possibly two of the most elusive concepts ever analyzed by experts. A ...

The most energetic cosmic neutrino, or "ghost particle," ever recorded may be the remnants of a nearby black hole explosion.

Neutrinos are subatomic particles with no charge and very little mass that are known to weakly interact with other matter in the universe. Due to their weak interactions with other particles, these ...

A neutrino sensor array, ARCA, lines the Mediterranean seafloor near Sicily. A physicist took ARCA’s first huge win to a warm ...

An extremely high-energy neutrino, the most powerful ever detected, was found. This neutrino likely originated from a cosmic event, possibly a supermassive black hole. Its unusual path suggests it may ...

Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black ...

Few particles in the universe are as strange and interesting as the neutrino. These elementary particles have no charge and so little mass that they can usually slip through matter without leaving a ...

Something in Antarctica is sending signals, and NASA has detected signs of a powerful presence hidden beneath one of the ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...