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BREAKING: We Finally Know Where High-Energy "Ghost Particles" Are Coming From
Some truly amazing science.
MICHELLE STARR 12 JUL 2018
Finally, scientists have found the source for a high-energy cosmic neutrino coming from outside our galaxy.
The so-called mysterious "ghost particle", detected on 22 September 2017, travelled 4 billion light-years to reach us, originating from an extremely energetic object called a blazar.
It's an amazing discovery, one that not only confirms blazars as a source of high-energy neutrinos, but also establishes a new field of study: multi-messenger neutrino astrophysics - the use of different types of detectors brought together to study the same phenomenon.
This same technique was used in the incredible research that confirmed and photographed colliding neutron stars.
More:
https://www.sciencealert.com/high-energy-neutrino-cosmic-rays-pinpointed-to-source-blazar-txs-0506-056