Ghost particles reveal the universe's secrets
Massive detectors worldwide capture elusive neutrinos, subatomic "ghost particles" that stream through us constantly, unlocking cosmic mysteries from black holes to the Big Bang.
Trillions of nearly massless neutrinos, dubbed "ghost particles," stream through your body every second, almost entirely undetected. These subatomic particles, born from the sun and cosmic events, interact so weakly with matter that they carry pristine information from the universe's most violent processes, unaffected by magnetic fields.
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