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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 220 PeV neutrino may have come from an exploding primordial black hole with a hidden “dark charge,” researchers report. (CREDIT: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tiny particle that smashed into Earth with a record-shattering energy of 220 petaelectronvolts could be the last scream of an ...

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A neutrino slammed into Earth in 2023 with so much energy that it looked almost unreal. The particle carried about 220 peta–electron volts, or PeV, making it the most energetic neutrino ever reported.