2023-07-05 18:35:27
Buried in the ice of Antarctica, the gigantic IceCube detector has just carried out the first galactic survey of the sources of these evanescent particles. An experimental feat.
It is a new vision of our galaxy, the Milky Way, which has just been published in the journal Science . In visible light, scientists were able to add new information: the amount of neutrinos emanating from it. One more brick to study the Universe: ” Over the past few decades, it has become clear that there is much to be gained from using wavelengths other than visible light, but also different cosmic messengers such as gravitational waves or certain subatomic particles called neutrinos »recalls the astrophysicist Luigi Antonio Fusco, of the University of Salerno (Italy), in the preamble of a commentary accompanying this study.
Neutrinos are tiny particles, electrically neutral and almost devoid of mass, which have the property of traveling in a straight line through matter as if it did not exist, or almost did not exist. Billions upon billions of neutrinos, basically…
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