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Will A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?

Season 4 Episode 30 | 10m 36s

Since the discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists have searched and searched for any hint of new particles. That search has been fruitless. Until, perhaps, now. Today on Space Time Journal Club we’ll look at a paper that reports a compelling hint of a new particle outside the standard model: the sterile neutrino.

Aired: 07/03/18
Extras
Gigantic black holes existed in a cosmic eyeblink after the Big Bang. That should be impossible.
LIGO may have found an impossible black hole, hinting at primordial relics from the Big Bang.
A decade later, a leading theory may finally explain Tabby’s Star, the galaxy’s weirdest star.
DESI and DES studied dark energy. Together, what can they tell us?
Could sending a quantum twin across the galaxy make you both old and young at the same time?
It's possible that an event horizon is forming right behind and you won't know until its too late.
Are there no alien signals to find... or do we need to update how we search for them?
Physicists hope Planck stars can save us from black hole singularities and paradoxes.
Galaxies older than the universe? Webb's findings keep defying our best explanations.
Earth's core: solid or liquid? Yes — we know more about distant galaxies than our own interior.
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Gigantic black holes existed in a cosmic eyeblink after the Big Bang. That should be impossible.
LIGO may have found an impossible black hole, hinting at primordial relics from the Big Bang.
A decade later, a leading theory may finally explain Tabby’s Star, the galaxy’s weirdest star.
DESI and DES studied dark energy. Together, what can they tell us?
Could sending a quantum twin across the galaxy make you both old and young at the same time?
It's possible that an event horizon is forming right behind and you won't know until its too late.
Are there no alien signals to find... or do we need to update how we search for them?
Physicists hope Planck stars can save us from black hole singularities and paradoxes.
Galaxies older than the universe? Webb's findings keep defying our best explanations.
Earth's core: solid or liquid? Yes — we know more about distant galaxies than our own interior.