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NSF’s IceCube points to cosmic ray source

On Sept. 22, 2017, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into the center of a single ice molecule in Antarctica, setting off a flash of light that sent scientists scrambling.  The impact happened within NSF’s massive IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the agency’s Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, and this event was particularly powerful.  The cubic-kilometer detector was designed to see these incredibly rare collisions, and IceCube immediately alerted researchers with nearly two dozen telescopes across the globe and in space to follow up and try to find the neutrino’s source.  And they did. The neutrino had been forged in a massive, matter-spitting galactic nucleus called a blazar, located nearly 4 billion light-years from Earth. 

The historic detection was announced in the journal Science on July 12, 2018, and at an NSF press conference.  

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