Scientists have detected the highest-energy ghost particle neutrino ever, but did it come from a supermassive black hole particle accelerator aiming its jet straight at Earth, or from a cosmic fossil?

An illustration shows a high-energy neutrino escaping a supermassive black hole then arriving ... that Earth's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is capable of achieving.

becoming powerful natural particle accelerators. This means black holes indulging in stellar meals of all sizes could be responsible for a higher-than-suspected amount of high-energy charged ...

This is in stark contrast with previously known particle-accelerating microquasars, which only hosted massive stars. For instance, the microquasar SS 433 hosts a black hole snacking on a star that ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Large Hadron Collider is back in action at the CERN laboratory after receiving a big upgrade in the time since its last run in 2012. The particle collider is ...

Scientists have detected the highest-energy "ghost particle" ever seen ... that are powered by feeding supermassive black holes. Blazars are types of quasars that stand out because the beams ...

Fears that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will destroy the planet ... who fears that the experiments could create a black hole that would destroy the planet from within. However, two scientists ...

High-energy neutrinos arise from particle collisions occurring in violent events such as a black hole eating matter or bursts of gamma rays during the explosive deaths of stars. They also can be ...