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Loading contentA sea of relic neutrinos released about one second after the Big Bang, when the young Universe became transparent to them — the neutrino analogue of the cosmic microwave background. Its existence is strongly supported by its imprint on primordial element abundances and the microwave background, though the neutrinos themselves are far too low in energy to have been detected directly.
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