Showing posts with label Particles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Particles. Show all posts
Friday, November 22, 2013
Extraterrestrial Particles Found at South Pole
For decades, scientists have been searching for ghostly neutrino particles from outer space, and now they have finally found them.
Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, researchers found the first evidence of neutrinos from outside the solar system since 1987. The findings open the door for a new era of astronomy that could reveal secrets of the strangest phenomena in the universe, scientists say.
"It is a major breakthrough," said Uli Katz, a particle physicist at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, in Germany, who was not involved with the research. "I think it is one of the absolute major discoveries in astro-particle physics," Katz told SPACE.com. . . .
