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Elusive neutrinos caught streaming from a black hole hidden in dust
By Tereza Pultarova published
A unique observatory buried in pristine Antarctic ice detected a stream of elusive neutrino particles streaming from the center of a distant galaxy obscured with dust.
![What exactly happens inside atoms?](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9haHGJ8THXQ3yX3pe7mG5F-320-80.jpg)
There's a Giant Mystery Hiding Inside Every Atom in the Universe
By Rafi Letzter last updated
No one really knows what happens inside an atom.
![3d illustration of an atom and quarks](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LcQyaePKLEH3X5jfjP7Swd-320-80.jpg)
Physicists Just Solved a 35-Year-Old Mystery Hidden Inside Atomic Cores
By Rafi Letzter last updated
The quarks inside atoms move slower than the quarks inside free-floating protons and neutrons. But why?
![top quarks](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EhEb79be5NMiy6xMyBvFMH-320-80.jpg)
Rare quadruplet 'top quarks' created at world's largest atom smasher
By Diane Lincoln last updated
The world's largest atom smasher has "given birth" to a set of four ultraheavy particles — called top quarks.
![The ALICE experiment at the LHC.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9ixoabfDEqY2mEPYZDMRcS-320-80.jpg)
Large Hadron Collider finds new way to measure mass of a quark
By Keith Cooper last updated
The LHC's ALICE experiment detected a 'dead cone' in the aftermath of a proton-proton collision, paving the way for the direct measurement of the mass of a quark.
![Protons, made of three quarks, colliding](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8uEJ9JwYBfxRz5JCq56nw-320-80.jpg)
Weird quantum experiment shows protons have more 'charm' than we thought
By Stephanie Pappas last updated
Protons can contain a charm quark, an elementary particle 1.5 times heavier than the proton itself.
![3D illustration of an atom and quarks.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Xo2rGyeH2aU8EdL49W4osY-320-80.jpg)
Why Physicists Are Interested in the Mysterious Quirks of the Heftiest Quark
By Paul Sutter last updated
The top quark is about 100 trillion times heavier than the up quark. But why?
![a mess of circles and lightning strikes](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WLCMmy2MRJKVBHEUVcvNMX-320-80.jpg)
Strange quark star may have formed from a lucky cosmic merger
By Paul Sutter last updated
A team of physicists has found that the remnant of a neutron star merger observed in 2019 has just the right mass to be a strange hypothetical quark star.
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