US EditionDeep-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]]>
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.
Undersea Telescope Detects Extremely Unusual Particle
The Kilometer Cube Neutrino Telescope—KM3NeT—is still under construction deep in the Mediterranean Sea but it has already made a find that has amazed scientists. In a study published in the journal Nature , researchers say they detected a neutrino vastly more powerful than any particle they had seen before....
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