00:01Deep in the Antarctic ice lies the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
00:07Since 2011, it has been detecting light emitted from particle collisions in the Antarctic ice.
00:14An enormous number of neutrinos pass through the detector every second.
00:20IceCube detects 100,000 neutrinos per year that are created in the Earth's atmosphere.
00:26In contrast, there are only about 100 neutrinos arriving from the cosmos per year.
00:33It is difficult to filter these few cosmic neutrinos out from the rest,
00:38but so far there has been some evidence that two galaxies are emitting neutrinos.
00:45Researchers of the IceCube collaboration have now succeeded in filtering the large number of neutrinos with the help of machine
00:53learning.
00:53Neutrinos can now be found originating from the Milky Way.
01:03We are looking into the future of astronomy research.
01:08New machine learning methods and neutrinos can reveal information from places in the Universe that were previously obscured by gas
01:17and dust.
01:25Independent researchers are modelling the distribution of neutrinos in the Milky Way.
01:35They expect to find particularly large numbers of these high-energy particles, where charged particles undergo acceleration in extreme magnetic
01:45fields and collide with other particles, presumably in star-forming regions, something that can be tested with IceCube data in
01:55the future.
01:58This observation established neutrinos as a new tool of astrophysics which let us peer into regions of space from which
02:07light cannot escape.
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