A Super-Energetic Neutrino That Reached Earth in 2023 Has Been Confirmed to Be Real. But Where Did It Come From?

February 2023, A cosmic particle detector, which is deeply located in the Mediterranean, has previously recorded the arrival of a neutrino with about 20 to 30 times more energy than other neutrinos. Labeled at KM 3-230213, 220 Pettlectronvolts (PEV) of the particle had a counting power, which is much higher than 10 PEV of the previously strongest neutrinore. The discovery created a lot of excitement among physicists, but also raised many questions.

Is neutrino The most plenty of particles In the universe with Mass. These are a kind of basic particle, which means they are not divided into smaller elements and so are very small and light. In fact, they are the lightest of all the subtomous particles that are mass. Neutrinos also do not have charge (contrary, say, electrons, other types of basic particles, which are negative). As a result, neutrino rarely interacts with other things; Often they go straight through it without changing it. In fact, since you started reading this article, trillions neutrinos would travel through space through space and pass through your body. This is why neutrinos sometimes say “ghost particles”.

For particle physicists, this extraordinary powerful neutrino detection can only be interpreted in two ways: KM 3-230213A is either a cosmic process, probably no one has seen it before, with the possibility of changing our understanding about neutrino; Or it was a defective measure of defects. Researchers started working quickly to find out which explanation was true.

Now seem to have an answer. A broad study published in the journal Physical review x Compare KM 3-230213a data to other ghost particles that detected data with data detected. After analyzing the available data, scientists believe that this significant, over-enhanced neutrino is not a statistical maya.

But where did you come from?

Such a rock cannot describe the nature of a mountain, so it is not effective to explain the event that 220 PEV neutrino alone has given birth. As the paper recognizes, as information is available, “the observation is not possible to draw the decisions on whether the observation indicates a new high-power element in the spectrum.”

However, if there are other recording of strong neutrinos, it will present considerable progress by indicating that the previously unseen events are out. “This may mean that for the first time we are watching the cosgenic neutrino, when the cosmic ray is produced by the cosmic microwave background, or it may point to a new type of astro physical source,” the survey said.

2023 Neutrino’s energy also suggests that in the universe we are aware that a gamma-ray burst or supernova, or probably a relative jet-a bead emitted around a black hole. On the contrary, many neutrinos detected on earth are atmospheric neutrino, which hit the atoms in the atmosphere in the Earth, produced by the effects of cosmic rays and it is less powerful. These are the same particles, but their potential sources affect their energy.

Different branches of science use and study neutrino for various reasons. Since neutrinos travel through the universe without being separated or absorbed, they can provide valuable information about very distant cosmic events. Some scientists think of them as “journalists in the universe” who travel from time to time, with data that otherwise lost.

This story was originally attended Wired in Spanish And have been translated from Spanish.