Supernova 1987A neutrinos
Neutrinos de la supernova 1987A
- Date
- 23 de febrero de 1987 · confidence high
- Place
- Kamiokande detector, Kamioka mine, Hida, Gifu, Japan
- Credited to
- Koshiba Masatoshi and the Kamiokande collaboration (with IMB, United States)
- People
- 👤 Masatoshi Koshiba1926–2020
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Detection of 11 neutrinos from a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, hours before the explosion was seen. It marked the birth of neutrino astronomy beyond the Solar System.
Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 for Koshiba.
What it led to
- confirmation of stellar core collapse
- neutrino astronomy
- Super-Kamiokande