By: Justin Zhao
Neutrinos are ghostly particles that are very light and pass through matter, giving a new path in seeing t the milky way. Neutrinos are ghostly particles that are very light and pass through matter.
Researchers in Antarctica are using ice cubes to look for high-energy neutrinos, and have made a picture and are the first to look in other than light.
The map hints that the neutrinos come from supernovas and other unknown causes.
A new map was shown on June 20.Before finding this, high-energy neutrinos were seen only in galaxies outside the Milky Way. Black holes caused all of them.
Kate is a physicist at Duke University in Durham, N.C., who did not participate in the new mapping project.It’s clear now that researchers are spotting neutrinos from inside and outside our galaxy, Kate Scholberg says.
“There’s so much more to learn. It can be tremendous fun to figure out how to see the universe with neutrino eyes.”
The experiment only catches some neutrinos, and some cause cascade events which do not show their souses.
“Astronomers used to throw away data on cascade events,” Kurahashi Neilson said, a physicist at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
“Those data can hold useful information about where the neutrinos come from. It’s hard to pick out which of those tens of thousands of cascade events are most important,” Neilson said.
Using neutrinos is just one of the many objects and puzzles of the universe.