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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: ...

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An incredibly energetic "impossible" particle that hit Earth in 2023 may have been debris from an exploding primordial black hole formed during the Big Bang. If that is the case, then it could prove ...

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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.