Neutrino’s nursery found: the ‘Shadow Blaster’

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT

02 July 2026

A particle detected at the South Pole was born in a galaxy that churned out stars when the Universe was young.

The hunt for the source of a single neutrino has led to the discovery of an unusually bright early galaxy 3.4 gigaparsecs (11 billion light years) away1.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-02034-1

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