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Evaporating Black Hole Near Us May Explain 2023 Neutrino Event

2025-10-01 Science & Technology
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Anton Petrov
Anton Petrov
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Record-Breaking Neutrino Detection Points to Exploding Primordial Black Holes

Unravel the mystery behind the most energetic neutrino particle ever recorded and explore the revolutionary, yet exotic, hypothesis that it resulted from a primordial black hole evaporating near our solar system.

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  • Detectors recorded a neutrino carrying extreme energy (220 PeV), shattering previous astrophysical records.
  • The particle's trajectory, moving horizontally through massive amounts of rock and water, ruled out standard atmospheric or deep-space sources like blazars.
  • A new proposal suggests this signal resulted from the final burst of evaporation from a tiny primordial black hole, potentially located within 2,000 AU of Earth.

This discussion details the bizarre nature of the KM3230213A event detected by KM3Net in February 2023. Understanding the implications—including evidence for Hawking radiation and a potential solution to the dark matter puzzle—requires examining fundamental particle physics and highly speculative astrophysics.

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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the strange neutrino event from 2023 and a potential explanation involving an evaporating primordial black hole Links: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/nwgd-g3zl https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/vnm4-7wdc https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08543-1 https://www.km3net.org/km-3230213a-full-page/ Original report: https://youtu.be/a821CxEqsqg Previous videos: https://youtu.be/A-WIsnoX2Uw https://youtu.be/Q9T9jlCn_lQ https://youtu.be/6h6MgvBLrxk #primordialblackholes #neutrino #science 0:00 2023 Neutrino mystery - KM3-230213A 1:10 Neutrinos and detecting them 3:00 2023 Event and how bizarre it was 5:10 Previous propositions and explanations 6:05 Exotic new explanation - primordial black holes 8:10 Could it be in the solar system? 9:00 Additional study and assumptions 9:50 What this would mean 11:00 Conclusions and what's next? Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@jwm6314 2025-10-01

I've been on a black hole science video kick. In the last 5 days I've watched 3-4 hours of long form videos on black holes. What a great coincidence to have such a preparation for an Anton release!

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@andrewdeas6407 2025-10-01

Can’t understand how a black hole could evaporate this early in the universe age.

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@PaulThronson 2025-10-01

What people always gloss over is that while 10^14 neutrinos pass through us every second, 10^23 gas molecules interact with our skin during the same time. That means for every neutrino that passes through us, an estimated 10 trillion molecules interact with our skin (edit: I'm not a physicist and these numbers could be way off. I've seen 10^23 to 10^27 as estimates for the number of molecules that hit our skin per second and which create the atmospheric pressure effect. My point it that when we hear the number of neutrinos passing through us, it sounds shocking, but the reality is neutrinos are rare compared to other particles hitting us.)

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@Joe_1sr9 2025-10-01

That neutrino really made a splash 😊

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@jimcurtis9052 2025-10-01

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 🙂😁

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@ed_reusser 2025-10-01

The only thing I don’t understand is why we would only see a single particle. We should have seen the whole thing

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@daveknight8410 2025-10-02

Nice video 😊 Anton 🤗 again very interesting 🤔 thanks

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@Edward-om8mz 2025-10-02

Hi Anton Great episode again Thanks

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@mastercontrolprogram82 2025-10-02

Drop everything, wonderful Anton talks about black holes!

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@richardbrown7970 2025-10-02

It's sounds like the bright detection was a scuba diver with a flash light. 😇

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