Thanks Red Badger. When a nearby galaxy starts blasting out fordtrinos, that'll really be something'. (insert rimshot here)
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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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It’s not easy to catch particles that interact so weakly with matter that they can travel through ten miles of lead without a single event occuring.
No big surprise.
It’s pointed somewhat at us.
The jets of neutrinos and energy from black holes come out of the poles.
Maybe ETs use that instead of radio. Just saying.
This is M77 for us common folk. 47 million LY isn’t THAT close.
M77 is a Seyfert Galaxy with a bright, active nucleus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_77
If these neutrinos can effect some types of radioactive decay....would that upset the ability to use radioactive decay rates as a clock?
Thanks Red Badger. When a nearby galaxy starts blasting out fordtrinos, that'll really be something'. (insert rimshot here)
Maybe neutrinos are the mechanism behind quantum entanglement.
Halloween?
Neutron stars produce a lot of neutrinos. A pound of matter his the surface like a hydrogen bomb. Such Interactions heat the star to billions of degrees. By far the way that energy is shed is by neutrinos. I suspect dark matter is actually neutrinos that slowed down as the universe expanded that now orbit galaxies like normal matter does.
Depends on whether it affects Carbon-12 or not..................
And Climate Change............................
There must be an abundance of neutrinos in the northeast right now. I’m sitting on the deck in a teeshirt.
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