{"id":222149,"date":"2025-09-19T03:25:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/primordial-black-holes-final-burst-may-solve-neutrino-mystery"},"modified":"2025-09-19T03:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:25:43","slug":"primordial-black-holes-final-burst-may-solve-neutrino-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/primordial-black-holes-final-burst-may-solve-neutrino-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Primordial black hole\u2019s final burst may solve neutrino mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/primordial-black-holes-final-burst-may-solve-neutrino-mystery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last gasp of a primordial black hole may be the source of the highest-energy \u201cghost particle\u201d detected to date, a new MIT study proposes.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/vnm4-7wdc\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> appearing today in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, MIT physicists put forth a strong theoretical case that a recently observed, highly energetic neutrino may have been the product of a primordial black hole exploding outside our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Neutrinos are sometimes referred to as ghost particles, for their invisible yet pervasive nature: They are the most abundant particle type in the universe, yet they leave barely a trace. Scientists recently identified signs of a neutrino with the highest energy ever recorded, but the source of such an unusually powerful particle has yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last gasp of a primordial black hole may be the source of the highest-energy \u201cghost particle\u201d detected to date, a new MIT study proposes. In a paper appearing today in Physical Review Letters, MIT physicists put forth a strong theoretical case that a recently observed, highly energetic neutrino may have been the product of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}