In the Dark

I’m a bit late onto this as I was rather busy last week, but I couldn’t resist passing on the news that the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected high-energy neutrinos (Tev) from the active galaxy NGC1068 (also known as Messier 77). The result is published in Science whence I stole this figure showing the concentration neutrinos correlated with the position of NGC1068, along with a couple of other sources.

The hotspot associated with NGC 1068 is the most intense feature observed on the whole sky. I won’t write any more because there are two videos about this discovery, the first a quick summary for general viewers:

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And the second is the full hour-long presentation as given last week.

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