Astronomers Realize Dark Matter Has Been Magnifying Cosmic Readings
The surface facility for IceCube, with the rest being below the ice.Credit: IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy have announced new research suggesting that neutrino detections at the Arctic IceCube Neutrino Observatory could be explained by dark matter lensing of readings from blazars.
So, what does that actually mean?
In astronomy, three elements are always at play: the actual event, the path information from that event takes as it travels to Earth, and the scientific reading astronomers collect.
Two of these are always needed to know the third for certain, but often astronomers have no choice but to assume a clean, unperturbed path for the readings they collect. Without such an assumption, which is wrong sometimes but right most of the time, they wouldn't be able to interpret their own observations.
Still, astronomers try to avoid assumptions whenever possible, charting a particle's path and...
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