The XENON collaboration observes an excess events in its XENON1T dark matter experiment

Where is the excess of events coming from? A tiny residual amount of tritium (a hydrogen atom with one proton and two neutrons)? Or a sign of something more exciting—such as the existence of a new particle known as the solar axion or the indication of previously unknown properties of neutrinos?

Drawings and editing: Laura Manenti
Script credit: XENON Collaboration
Photos credit: XENON Collaboration (acknowledgement: Luigi Di Carlo, LDC Audiovisivi) and ESA (European Space Agency)/Hubble & NASA (acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt)
Music: Lavinia Meijer playing Philip Glass

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