they buried the telescope so the neutrinos wouldn't feel watched

Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Francis Halzen for cosmic neutrino experiment

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics to Belgian physicist Francis Halzen for conceiving IceCube, a neutrino detector buried roughly 2.5 kilometres deep in Antarctic ice at the South Pole, built with Spanish collaborator Enrique Zas. The telescope uses a cubic kilometre of instrumented ice instead of lenses to catch cosmic neutrinos passing through Earth. The prize recognises a project that took decades and hundreds of researchers to build.

Source: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Francis Halzen for cosmic neutrino experiment — El País

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