SCIENTISTS working with a giant Antarctic telescope have shed new light on how the earth blocks particles from black holes.
The team, which includes researchers from Oxford University's physics department, have used the device to, for the first time, demonstrate the planet's ability to absorb and stop highly energetic neutrino particles.
The IceCube ‘telescope’ is a kilometre-size chunk of the Antarctic icecap that searches for cosmic neutrinos and estimates their directions and energies.
These latest findings were published yesterday in science journal Nature.
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