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An unexplained high-energy neutrino detected three years ago could be linked to a primordial black hole, perhaps one more even unusual than previously thought ...

Jacqueline Ortoleva is a Leverhulme early career research fellow at the University of Oxford, in England ...

Pascal Vrticka is an associate professor at the University of Essex in the U.K.

Maurizio Forte is professor of classical studies art at Duke University.