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New clues in the hunt for the sources of cosmic neutrinos


February 18, 2016

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Incredibly dense and powerful objects beyond our Milky Way Galaxy may prevent the escape of high-energy gamma rays that accompany the production of the cosmic neutrinos detected on Earth by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory buried deep in the Antarctic Ice Sheet, according to a paper to be published in the early online edition of the journal Physical Review Letters on Feb. 18, 2016.Full Story

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