This is the slowest radioactive decay ever spotted
It takes 1 trillion times the age of the universe for a xenon-124 sample to shrink by half

STRANGE DECAY In a first, scientists have directly detected an extremely rare type of radioactive decay called two-neutrino double electron capture.
XENON Collaboration
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