Possible Extragalactic Source of High-Energy Neutrinos
Friday, April 29, 2016 - 14:40
in Astronomy & Space
Nearly 10 billion years ago in a galaxy known as PKS B1424-418, a dramatic explosion occurred. Light from this blast began arriving at Earth in 2012. Now, an international team of astronomers, led by Prof. Matthias Kadler, professor for astrophysics at the university of Wurzburg, and including other scientists from the new research cluster for astronomy and astroparticle physics at the universities of Wurzburg and Erlangen-Nurnberg, have shown that a record-breaking neutrino seen around the same time likely was born in the same event. The results are published in Nature Physics.