Deep-Sea Telescope Detects Record-Breaking High-Energy Neutrino
- A neutrino detector in the Mediterranean Sea has detected the most energetic neutrino ever found, reported by scientists on Wednesday.
- This newly detected neutrino is around 30 times more active than the previous record-holder, according to Rosa Coniglione, a researcher involved in the discovery.
- The source of the newly discovered neutrino is believed to be outside the Milky Way, but its exact origin is still unknown.
- The research highlights that the study of neutrinos is still developing, as scientists seek to understand cosmic events.
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Most Powerful Cosmic Neutrino Detected Under Mediterranean Sea
One module of KM3NeT with 31 light sensitive ‘eyes’ (called photomultiplier tubes) in the deep sea. The observatory which detected the ultra-high energy event (called KM3NeT/ARCA) had 378 of such modules installed at the time of the detection, on a total of 21 vertical detection lines attached to the sea bottom. Credit: Courtesy KM3NeT / CC BY-NC 4.0 Scientists have detected a tiny, ghost-like particle called a neutrino with record-breaking ener…
Neutrinos, due to their weak interaction with matter, allow us to study cosmic phenomena that are invisible to other forms of radiation, such as supernovae, black holes and active galactic nuclei. Read more]]>
It is often said that neutrinos are ghost particles. They barely have mass. They don’t interact with almost anything, so they constantly cross us without us being able to appreciate it. They are invisible, but, only sometimes, when colliding with certain things, they leave a flash of light. They are but they are not. And yet – and perhaps for that reason – they are excellent messengers from beyond. They can travel in a straight line cosmic dista…
An elementary particle, which weighs almost nothing, has hit the Mediterranean with the by far highest energy observed so far. Now the researchers wonder where it came from.
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