{"id":22068,"date":"2025-02-12T15:16:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T16:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22068"},"modified":"2025-02-12T16:29:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T16:29:58","slug":"ultrahigh-energy-neutrino-found-with-a-telescope-under-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22068","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ultrahigh Energy\u2019 Neutrino Found With a Telescope Under the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s the most energetic particle of its kind ever discovered, and scientists have no idea where it came from.<\/p>\n

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Deep in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, physicists have uncovered evidence of a ghostly subatomic particle catapulting through space at a speed they once could only dream of.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we have discovered is, we think, the most energetic neutrino ever recorded on Earth,\u201d said Paul de Jong, a physicist at the University of Amsterdam and current spokesperson for the global collaboration of roughly 350 scientists who were involved in the discovery.<\/p>\n

The team announced its \u201cultrahigh energy\u201d neutrino on Wednesday, in a paper<\/a> published in the journal Nature. The finding brings physicists and astronomers one step closer to understanding just what, exactly, is out there thrusting particles to such unfathomable speeds.<\/p>\n

At a news conference on Tuesday, researchers described the discovery as a peek into what the universe looks like at its most extreme. \u201cWe\u2019ve just opened a completely new window,\u201d said Paschal Coyle, an astroparticle physicist at the Center for Particle Physics of Marseille in France. \u201cIt\u2019s really a very exciting first glimpse into this energy regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Neutrinos are notoriously antisocial. Unlike most other particles, they are nearly weightless and carry no electrical charge, so they do not regularly collide, repel or otherwise interact with matter. They flow through nearly everything \u2014 the innards of stars, the churning dust of galaxies, ordinary people \u2014 without a trace.<\/p>\n

Thus unimpeded, neutrinos point straight back to their origins, making them excellent guides to the natural, yet-unknown \u201ccosmic accelerators\u201d that created them. They are also spectacularly elusive, and for decades scientists have worked to trap them with instruments deep in the mountains<\/a>, beneath frozen lakes<\/a> and buried in Antarctic ice<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But no neutrino captured previously has resembled anything quite like this one. Scientists found the ultrahigh energy neutrino using the Kilometer Cube Neutrino Telescope, or KM3NeT, which is still under construction but already operating. The instrument consists of a pair of detectors a couple of miles beneath the surface of the Mediterranean, off the coasts of France and Sicily.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s the most energetic particle of its kind ever discovered, and scientists have no idea where it came from.Deep in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, physicists have uncovered evidence of a ghostly subatomic particle catapulting through space at a speed they once could only dream of.\u201cWhat we have discovered is, we think, the most energetic neutrino ever recorded on Earth,\u201d said Paul de Jong, a physicist at the University of Amsterdam and current spokesperson for the global collaboration of roughly 350 scientists who were involved in the discovery.The team announced its \u201cultrahigh energy\u201d neutrino on Wednesday, in a paper published in the journal Nature. The finding brings physicists and astronomers one step closer to understanding just what, exactly, is out there thrusting particles to such unfathomable speeds.At a news conference on Tuesday, researchers described the discovery as a peek into what the universe looks like at its most extreme. \u201cWe\u2019ve just opened a completely new window,\u201d said Paschal Coyle, an astroparticle physicist at the Center for Particle Physics of Marseille in France. \u201cIt\u2019s really a very exciting first glimpse into this energy regime.\u201dNeutrinos are notoriously antisocial. Unlike most other particles, they are nearly weightless and carry no electrical charge, so they do not regularly collide, repel or otherwise interact with matter. They flow through nearly everything \u2014 the innards of stars, the churning dust of galaxies, ordinary people \u2014 without a trace.Thus unimpeded, neutrinos point straight back to their origins, making them excellent guides to the natural, yet-unknown \u201ccosmic accelerators\u201d that created them. They are also spectacularly elusive, and for decades scientists have worked to trap them with instruments deep in the mountains, beneath frozen lakes and buried in Antarctic ice.But no neutrino captured previously has resembled anything quite like this one. Scientists found the ultrahigh energy neutrino using the Kilometer Cube Neutrino Telescope, or KM3NeT, which is still under construction but already operating. The instrument consists of a pair of detectors a couple of miles beneath the surface of the Mediterranean, off the coasts of France and Sicily.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22070,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22071,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22068\/revisions\/22071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}