Did you know that more than a hundred trillion neutrinos rush through your body every second? However, neutrinos interact with their environment incredibly rarely – and that is precisely what makes them so interesting for astronomy: they reach us from regions of the cosmos from which no ray of light can ever reach us. They can give us information about the interior of the Sun, where the nuclear reactions that power our central star take place. They even escape from the cosmic hells surrounding supermassive black holes, where the most powerful energy bursts in the universe occur.
Our journey of discovery through the cosmos is also a trip into the underworld: neutrino telescopes are located in ore mines, along tunnels through mighty mountain ranges, in the deep waters of Lake Baikal or in the kilometre-thick ice sheet of the South Pole.
This book will teach you how to explore our universe with "ghost particles," how neutrinos are created, what problems their observation poses for researchers, and what mysteries they still hold.
The thoroughly updated 2nd edition takes into account the latest successes in the field of neutrino astronomy.
