{"id":149845,"date":"2022-11-09T23:22:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T05:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/sensors-deep-under-antarctic-ice-located-a-source-of-ghost-particles-from-space"},"modified":"2022-11-09T23:22:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T05:22:41","slug":"sensors-deep-under-antarctic-ice-located-a-source-of-ghost-particles-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/sensors-deep-under-antarctic-ice-located-a-source-of-ghost-particles-from-space","title":{"rendered":"Sensors Deep Under Antarctic Ice Located a Source of \u2018Ghost Particles\u2019 from Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sensors-deep-under-antarctic-ice-located-a-source-of-ghost-particles-from-space3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists used the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a special telescope that extends for more than a mile under the Antarctic ice at the South Pole, to capture roughly 80 astrophysical neutrinos from a galaxy known as NGC 1,068, or Messier 77, which has an extremely active galactic core. The finding suggests that these active galaxies provide \u201ca substantial contribution\u201d to the abundance of astrophysical neutrinos, and therefore cosmic rays, that permeate through the universe, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1126\/science.abg3395\" target=\"_blank\">a study published on Thursday<\/a> in <em>Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very exciting result because for the first time, we actually understand that astrophysical neutrinos can be related to this very special type of galaxy,\u201d said Theo Glauch, an experimental physicist at the Technical University of Munich and a co-author of the new study, in a call with Motherboard. \u201cWe physicists call them active galaxies because they\u2019re very different from, for example, our Milky Way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unlike our own galaxy, which is currently dormant, NGC 1,068 contains \u201can extremely bright environment which we can only study in neutrinos,\u201d Glauch added. \u201cNeutrinos are the only particles that can directly escape from the processes that drive this extremely high luminosity in the core of those galaxies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists used the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a special telescope that extends for more than a mile under the Antarctic ice at the South Pole, to capture roughly 80 astrophysical neutrinos from a galaxy known as NGC 1,068, or Messier 77, which has an extremely active galactic core. The finding suggests that these active galaxies provide [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}