{"id":97070,"date":"2019-10-05T11:03:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T18:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/astronomers-have-traced-a-single-neutrino-to-a-collision-3-8-billion-light-years-away"},"modified":"2019-10-05T11:03:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T18:03:48","slug":"astronomers-have-traced-a-single-neutrino-to-a-collision-3-8-billion-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/astronomers-have-traced-a-single-neutrino-to-a-collision-3-8-billion-light-years-away","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Have Traced a Single Neutrino to a Collision 3.8 Billion Light-Years Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-have-traced-a-single-neutrino-to-a-collision-3-8-billion-light-years-away2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/neutrinos\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"neutrino\">neutrino<\/a> was detected by a neutrino detector in Antarctica in September 2017, it was the start of something amazing. It was to become the first-ever high-energy neutrino that astronomers could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/high-energy-neutrino-cosmic-rays-pinpointed-to-source-blazar-txs-0506-056\">trace back to an origin<\/a> \u2014 a blazar galaxy called TXS 0506+056, 3.8 billion light-years away.<\/p>\n<p>But, in the manner of many great discoveries, that revelation opened up a whole new can of questions, including this: why, of all the galaxies with similar properties, has a neutrino only ever been traced to this one?<\/p>\n<p>Now, astronomers have found a possible answer, pinpointing the source event that produced this neutrino. The relativistic jet blasting out of a supermassive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"black hole\">black hole<\/a> could have acted as a cosmic particle collider, producing a flurry of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/neutrinos\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"neutrinos\">neutrinos<\/a> that, due to the shape and wobble of the jet, ended up streaming through Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a single neutrino was detected by a neutrino detector in Antarctica in September 2017, it was the start of something amazing. It was to become the first-ever high-energy neutrino that astronomers could trace back to an origin \u2014 a blazar galaxy called TXS 0506+056, 3.8 billion light-years away. But, in the manner of many [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97070","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}