China puts into operation world's largest "ghost particle" observatory

China has just officially put into operation the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in Guangdong province, southern China.

This is the world's largest research facility for mysterious neutrinos, also known as "ghost particles", with the participation of more than 700 scientists from 74 research institutes in 17 countries.

According to China Central Television (CCTV), JUNO is located 700 meters underground in Jiangmen City. This observatory is capable of detecting neutrinos from various sources such as the Sun, supernova explosions, the Earth's atmosphere, as well as from the Taishan and Yangjiang nuclear power plants, about 53 kilometers away.

After more than a decade of preparation and construction, JUNO became the world's first large-scale facility specifically designed to study neutrinos with high precision.

The opening of this observatory is expected to open a breakthrough in explaining fundamental questions about the nature of matter and the origin of the universe.

Neutrinos, the smallest and lightest of the 12 fundamental particles that make up the physical world, are electrically neutral and can travel at nearly the speed of light.

They are often called “ghost particles” because they have almost no mass and rarely interact with other matter, making them very difficult to detect.

As one of the fundamental particles that make up the physical world, neutrinos have played an important role since the formation of the universe./.

(TTXVN/Vietnam+)

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