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Black holes associated with cosmic neutrino flares

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Astrophysical neutrinos could originate from blazars, but their modelling is challenging. Instead, the source of cosmic neutrinos could be a special yet unidentified class in which jets burrow through stellar material and produce neutrinos.

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Fig. 1: Blazar shoots neutrinos and gamma rays to Earth.

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We thank P.L. Biermann, M. Böttcher, S. Heinz, and J. Gallagher for fruitful discussions. This work was supported in part by the US National Science Foundation under grants PLR-1600823 and PHY-1607644 and by the University of Wisconsin Research Committee with funds granted by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.

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    Francis Halzen & Ali Kheirandish

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