Nobel Prize in Physics: End stop ice block

Far away - that's a gross understatement for this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. It has to do with events that took place billions of light years away from Earth, in distant galaxies. A long, long time ago, a few neutrinos made their way there - ghostly particles that can effortlessly penetrate matter.

A high-tech observatory at the South Pole called IceCube has repeatedly captured the cosmic particles in recent years. Humanity now knows a little more about what is going on in the depths of the cosmos. How gigantic black holes accelerate matter almost up to the speed of light and trigger processes that are so extreme that they do not occur anywhere in our Milky Way.