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Neutrino flavor flips could be key to triggering supernovae
- May 17, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Despite being so elusive, neutrinos are produced in abundance in some of the most violent events in the universe. One of their strangest properties is that they can spontaneously switch between three types, or "flavors": a phenomenon known as neutrino oscillation that remains poorly understood in extreme astrophysical environments.
Originally published at Phys.org