These obviously aren't actual photos of the 'ghost particle', but its amazing how creative some publishers will get, when trying to illustrate how some sort of particle on the nano-spectrum looks. Ever since the first detection of neutrons in 1970, scientists have been doing whatever they can to try to learn about, and isolate the particle. But how does one go about identifying the mass of an object that is one of the closest to having no mass? The brightest scientific minds have been working for decades to figure it out. But for now, what we know is simply the upper limit that the mass of these particles could reach. The lower limit could literally be nothing, so there is still a lot of work to do.
Scientists are saying the discovery begins a new era of space science and research. Maybe one day we'll finally get a selfie with an alien. For now all we can do is wait for the next raid of Area 51 to check out what is really out there beyond out planet.
100 billion neutrinos fly through your thumb from the Sun every second, 24 hours a day. First hypothesized about in 1930 by Wolfgang Pauli, neutrinos and their study are critical in fields like nuclear physics and astrophysics.
Though not a picture of a neutrino, this has everything to do with how important their study is. In order to understand almost anything going on in space, understanding their function and interaction. They also play a distinct role in supernovas and the evolution of stars. If scientists could isolate its mass, current theories of Physics that make up the backbone of research, would be rendered moot.
Despite being used for an article about black holes done by a university, apparently recycling an image because it has the same tag.
Again, not even close to a neutrino, this is a picture of a galaxy that is incalculably larger than a neutron. We literally can't calculate it because we don't know the mass of a neutrino. Though maybe all this attention to the smallest thing known will help move things along.
Now this may not be a picture of a neutrino, but it is at least a picture of one of the sites where they are attempting to isolate and catch them for further research. I wonder if they have a fishing pole with a magnet at a sub-atomic level they use to try to catch them...