At the heart of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 1068, researchers found a thriving 'factory' of ghostly particles called neutrinos. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Roma Tre Univ.)
Posted on 11/04/2022 1:16:34 PM PDT by Red Badger
The spiral galaxy NGC 1068, also known as the squid galaxy, is a bustling 'Disneyland' of neutrino production, researchers said.
At the heart of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 1068, researchers found a thriving 'factory' of ghostly particles called neutrinos.
A nearby spiral galaxy is pumping out ghostly neutrinos — mysterious particles that barely interact with the matter around them, scientists have found.
The elusive particles are coming from a hotspot of neutrino production in the heart of the spiral galaxy Messier 77, which is anchored by a black hole. The region is rich in dense gas and electromagnetic fields, study leader Francis Halzen, a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, told Live Science. This makes it a "Disneyland for producing neutrinos," he said.
Increasingly, Halzen said, research is pointing to similar active galactic cores as places where neutrinos are born.
"That's what makes the paper exciting," he said of the new research, published Nov. 4 in the journal Science. "Not just to find another source, but it begins to point at what may be the accelerator of cosmic rays and the sources of the neutrinos."
Neutrino hunt Neutrinos are subatomic particles with no charge and almost no mass. They interact with only two forces, gravity and the weak force, which is responsible for some types of radioactive decay. They travel at almost the speed of light and are enormously abundant — about 100 billion pass through every square centimeter of your body every second . However, they are extremely hard to detect because they interact so weakly with matter.
Neutrinos can be created just about anywhere in the universe — from decaying elements within Earth to gargantuan supernova explosions on the other side of the cosmos.
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At the heart of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 1068, researchers found a thriving 'factory' of ghostly particles called neutrinos. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Roma Tre Univ.)
NGC 1068 is obviously the home of Chuck Norris.
I dunno, it’s hard to explain - some places are stylish for a while and then the customers just start to gravitate somewhere else.
We better shoot back with the big guns. No 22LR for this.
The movies 2012 was all about neutrinos hitting the earth and causing it to swell....................
Who you gonna call?
Ghostly Neutrino BUSTERS!
No border enforcement......
Taxes too high!......................
Probably means a black hole just gobbled up a star.
They aren’t bothering me.
Are they right-chiral or left-chiral neutrinos?
Poor old star that was at the end of that game of crack the whip.
The more exciting question is, “Are the just active (Standard Model) or sterile (only gravitational) neutrinos?”
I think I had a neutrino hat. Isn’t that a kind of sable?
Is NGC 1068 requesting more Chuck Berry?
I ain’t afraid of no neutrino.
Cow farts
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