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Our own Milky Way is sending out neutrinos, the so-called 'ghost particles'

Scientists have detected these strange particles from outer space before, but this is the first time they've caught cosmic neutrinos from our own Milky Way
The IceCube Lab under a starry, night sky, with the Milky Way appearing over low auroras in the background.

A giant detector buried deep within the Antarctic ice at the South Pole has obtained the first evidence of eerie particles called neutrinos coming from the innards of our own home galaxy, the

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