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How To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos

2022-11-23 Education
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Check out PIA's special Black Friday deal for Space Time fans https://www.piavpn.com/SpaceTime PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to:http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Neutrinos are one of the most bizarre of known particles. Black holes are probably the most bizarre of astrophysical objects. Makes sense we should use one to study the other, no? Well, today we’re doing just that. Special Thanks to: Science Communication Lab for DESY for use of their image in the thumbnail. Check out: https://www.scicom-lab.com/ to see more amazing images. Check out the Space Time Merch Store https://www.pbsspacetime.com/shop Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements! https://mailchi.mp/1a6eb8f2717d/spacetime Search the Entire Space Time Library Here: https://search.pbsspacetime.com/ Hosted by Matt O'Dowd Written by Matt O'Dowd Post Production by Leonardo Scholzer, Yago Ballarini, Pedro Osinski, Caique Oliveira, Adriano Leal & Stephanie Faria Directed by Andrew Kornhaber Associate Producer: Bahar Gholipour Executive Producers: Eric Brown & Andrew Kornhaber Executive in Charge for PBS: Maribel Lopez Director of Programming for PBS: Gabrielle Ewing Assistant Director of Programming for PBS: John Campbell Spacetime is produced by Kornhaber Brown for PBS Digital Studios. This program is produced by Kornhaber Brown, which is solely responsible for its content. © 2022 PBS. All rights reserved. End Credits Music by J.R.S. Schattenberg: https://www.youtube.com/user/MultiDroideka Special Thanks to Our Patreon Supporters Big Bang Supporters Devin Wiley Ankur Anand Ryan Salsamendi Steffen Bendel Gautam Shine Bryce Fort Peter Barrett David Neumann Leo Koguan Alexander Tamas Morgan Hough Amy Hickman Juan Benet Vinnie Falco Fabrice Eap Mark Rosenthal David Nicklas Quasar Supporters Glenn Sugden Vikram Vaka Alex Kern Ethan Cohen Stephen Wilcox Christina Oegren Mike Conroy Mark Heising Hank S Hypernova Supporters Matthew Pabst Ryan Moser David Giltinan Ivari Tölp Vyce Ailour Brandon Paddock Ken S Gregory Forfa Kirk Honour drollere Joe Moreira Bradley Voorhees Marc Armstrong Scott Gorlick Paul Stehr-Green Ben Delo Scott Gray Антон Кочков John R. Slavik Mathew David S. Cerutti Donal Botkin John Pollock Edmund Fokschaner Joseph Salomone chuck zegar Jordan Young John Hofmann Daniel Muzquiz Gamma Ray Burst Supporters Cole Marc Forand D. Delair Walter Montalvo Andrea Galvagni Larka Jerry Thomas Nikhil Sharma Alexander Gruber Jonathan Cordovano John Anderson Scott Hannum Paul Widden Bradley Ulis Craig Falls Vivaan Vaka Kane Holbrook Ross Story teng guo Sujasha Gupta Vaka Mason Dillon Harsh Khandhadia Thomas Tarler bsgbryan Sean McCaul Susan Albee Frank Walker Matt Q MHL SHS Terje Vold James Trimmier Anatoliy Nagornyy comboy Andre Stechert Paul Wood Kent Durham jim bartosh Nubble Ramon Nogueira The Mad Mechanic Ellis Hall John H. Austin, Jr. Diana S Faraz Khan Almog Cohen Alex Edwards Ádám Kettinger MD3 Endre Pech Daniel Jennings Cameron Sampson Geoffrey Clarion Russ Creech Jeremy Reed Eric Webster David Johnston Web Browser Michael Barton Mr T Andrew Mann Isaac Suttell Devon Rosenthal Oliver Flanagan Bleys Goodson Robert Walter Bruce B Mirik Gogri Mark Delagasse Mark Daniel Cohen Nickolas Andrew Freeman Shane Calimlim Tybie Fitzhugh Robert Ilardi Eric Kiebler Craig Stonaha Graydon Goss Frederic Simon Tonyface John Robinson Jim Hudson A G David Neal justahat John Funai Tristan Bradley Jenkins Daniel Stříbrný Luaan Cody Thomas Dougherty King Zeckendorff Dan Warren Patrick Sutton John Griffith Daniel Lyons DFaulk

Top Comments (10)

@lisajsch1338 2022-11-24

So cool to have our work featured in PBS space time! We're doing our best to make these first steps of neutrino astronomy possible. And there are more detectors being built and planned! Just one criticism: the neutrino map you showed is an older one, the new one with 4.2 sigma significance is available in Science and also on ArXiv by now.

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@spacetime3 2022-11-23

Another quality rabbit hole to go down! It's amazing how much the quality of physics content the public has nowadays still remember the days of dumbed down physics content. Love this channel!

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@weathercat4 2022-11-23

It feels like we are entering a completely new age of cosmic discovery!

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@MntErebus 2022-11-24

As a science enthusiast and former Antarctican I’m happy to see IceCube being celebrated on SpaceTime. I worked on the observatory communications lines to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and it will always be a career highlight for me. Thank you SpaceTime.

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@pbsspacetime 2022-11-23

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@Astronomater 2022-12-03

as a doc, i agree that someone seeing flashes of light should see a doc immediately. worst case scenario is that it is a detached retina. most likely cause is likely a migraine aura but if it persists or happens repeatedly, it definitely isn't a neutrino.

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@markzambelli 2022-11-26

Matt O'Dowd is a Legend. There are so many hard-working people that make this channel great, a few of which we see mentioned in the credits. Yet atop this pyramid of talent stands Matt, the very face of PBS Space Time... whether he's clarifying pronunciations or detailing the latest research in the subject of the day he does so with that wry Aussie humour that's so infectious and such a pleasure to see. Good on ya' mate... bloody Legend!

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@semaj_5022 2022-11-24

The calculation of likelihood of seeing a neutrino at the end was honestly one of my favorite parts of this video. I wonder if there's a way to include more of those sorts of "real world" math problems in future videos? That kind of stuff is so cool to me.

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@TerenceClark 2022-11-28

I love that a project my local university, UW Madison, is so involved with! My ex was on the local neutrino detector team for the project next door, CUORE, which got a call out on a prior episode. It's awesome knowing so much cutting edge physics is happening right down the road, quite literally.

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@code-dredd 2022-11-24

The next detector should be designed to produce a 100% rate of false positives. It should be called Rick Astley.

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