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Ghostly neutrino particles are blasting out of a nearby galaxy, and scientists aren't sure why
Live Science ^
| November 3, 2022
| By Stephanie Pappas
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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TOPICS: Astronomy; Health/Medicine; History; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: astronomy; galaxy; neutrinos; ngc1068; oldtrinos; physics; science; squidgalaxy; stringtheory
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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.)
To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; SuperLuminal
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posted on
11/04/2022 1:17:57 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
NGC 1068 is obviously the home of Chuck Norris.
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posted on
11/04/2022 1:19:56 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Red Badger
I dunno, it’s hard to explain - some places are stylish for a while and then the customers just start to gravitate somewhere else.
To: Red Badger
We better shoot back with the big guns. No 22LR for this.
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posted on
11/04/2022 1:21:17 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: Billthedrill
The movies 2012 was all about neutrinos hitting the earth and causing it to swell....................
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posted on
11/04/2022 1:24:27 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Who you gonna call?
Ghostly Neutrino BUSTERS!
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posted on
11/04/2022 1:25:25 PM PDT
by
Fido969
(45 is Superman! )
To: Red Badger
"Ghostly neutrino particles are blasting out of a nearby galaxy, and scientists aren't sure why,"
No border enforcement......
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posted on
11/04/2022 1:27:39 PM PDT
by
G Larry
( When Leftists say "Population Control" it means Killing Billions, not "limiting growth".)
To: G Larry
Taxes too high!......................
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posted on
11/04/2022 1:28:22 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Probably means a black hole just gobbled up a star.
To: Red Badger
They aren’t bothering me.
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posted on
11/04/2022 1:28:36 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Red Badger
Are they right-chiral or left-chiral neutrinos?
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posted on
11/04/2022 1:29:26 PM PDT
by
nagant
To: Red Badger
Poor old star that was at the end of that game of crack the whip.
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posted on
11/04/2022 1:33:14 PM PDT
by
mware
To: Fido969
This is where they hang out. The Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detector deep underground in Japan.
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posted on
11/04/2022 1:41:21 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: nagant
The more exciting question is, “Are the just active (Standard Model) or sterile (only gravitational) neutrinos?”
To: xp38; SaveFerris; PROCON; Rebelbase
I think I had a neutrino hat. Isn’t that a kind of sable?
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posted on
11/04/2022 1:52:12 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: Red Badger
Is NGC 1068 requesting more Chuck Berry?
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posted on
11/04/2022 2:12:49 PM PDT
by
buckalfa
(Kilroy was here, but who was he?)
To: Red Badger
Neutrinos, they are very small
They have no charge and have no mass
And do not interact at all.
The Earth is just a silly ball
to them, through which they simply pass,
Like dustmaids down a drafty hall
Or photons through a sheet of glass.
The snub the most exquisite gas,
Ignore the most substantial wall,
Could-shoulder steel and sounding brass,
Insult the stallion in his stall,
And scorning barriers of class,
Infiltrate you and me. Like tall
And painless guillotines, they fall
Down through our heads into the grass.
At night, they enter at Nepal
And pierce the lover and his lass
From underneath the bed - you call
It wonderful; I call it crass.
John Updike
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posted on
11/04/2022 2:27:08 PM PDT
by
sima_yi
( Reporting live from the far North)
To: Fido969
I ain’t afraid of no neutrino.
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posted on
11/04/2022 2:35:55 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/04/2022 2:58:51 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
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