Astronomers combined observations from three different observatories to produce this colourful, multiwavelength image of the remnants of Supernova 1987 A. IMAGE: NASA, ESA, A. Angelich (NRAO, AUI, NSF)
Astronomers combined observations from three different observatories to produce this colourful, multiwavelength image of the remnants of Supernova 1987 A. IMAGE: NASA, ESA, A. Angelich (NRAO, AUI, NSF) - A team from the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC, UV/CSIC) predicts that supernovae can be a source for determining the mass of neutrinos. This is explained by a theoretical study published in the journal Physical Review Letters. The experimental confirmation of the proposal is carried out within the framework of the international collaboration DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment), whose future detector will observe, for this work, neutrinos from supernova explosions. Neutrinos are known as the most elusive particles. Due to their unique properties, they travel unhindered along their path until, exceptionally, they interact with other particles and generate observable signals. Neutrinos from supernovae -specifically from SN 1987A, located in the Large Magellanic Cloudhave previously been observed by the Kamiokande-II, IMB and Baksan water neutrino detectors. The importance of this detection received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for Masatoshi Koshiba.
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