In a water Cherenkov detector, the Cherenkov radiation is detected, usually by photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), and the cone of emission reconstructed. The axis of the cone gives the direction of the ...

An international team of scientists announced Wednesday the detection of an extraordinary, elusive neutrino — a tiny, subatomic particle ... phenomenon called Cherenkov radiation — a blue ...

There, a black hole with the mass of about six Suns is slurping material off a giant star of about three solar masses – and producing intense radiation like a cosmic particle accelerator.