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Impossibly powerful ‘ghost particle’ that slammed into Earth may have come from an exploding black hole — and could change both particle physics and cosmology

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Impossibly powerful ‘ghost particle’ that slammed into Earth may have come from an exploding black hole — and could change both particle physics and cosmology

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndicate partners may earn a commission. A new paper suggests that an incredibly energetic neutrino that slammed into Earth in 2023 could have been unleashed by an exploding black hole. | Credit: Illustration by Tobias Roetsch for All About Space Magazine/Future Publishing via Getty … Read more

A twist between hidden dimensions may explain the mass

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A twist between hidden dimensions may explain the mass

The masses of fundamental particles such as the Z and W bosons could have arisen from the twisted geometry of hidden dimensions, new theoretical work has shown. The work highlighted a way to bypass the Higgs field as a source of particle masses, providing a new tool for understanding how the Higgs field itself might … Read more