A neutrino telescope spots the signs of something cataclysmic
What could have generated the most energetic neutrino ever detected?
ON FEBRUARY 13th 2023 an object with extraterrestrial origins went screaming through the Mediterranean Sea off the Sicilian coast. A single, super-energetic subatomic particle left a sparkling trail of light in the depths. And it did so right in the middle of an odd sort of telescope that was partway through construction. In a paper published in Nature this week, the scientists in charge of KM3Net discuss how they detected the signature of the most powerful neutrino that science has ever seen.
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