Scientists stand on a platform at the world’s largest underground neutrino detector Super Kamiokande located 1km underneath the mountain in central Japan. Credit: Copyright : Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
An international team in Japan is getting ready to power up a 50,000-ton neutrino detector by adding a single metal, which will turn it into the world’s first detector capable of analysing exploding stars beyond the immediate neighbourhood of the Milky Way. Neutrinos are relics from supernovae,. They are so tiny and interact so weakly that every second, trillions of them manage to pass through human bodies without anyone noticing. Studying them can reveal details about how stars in the universe, like our sun, work.
The problem is that all supernova neutri...
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