Russia dropped the telescope into Lake Baikal, discovered dark matter

Russian scientists released the device into Lake Baikal in hopes of shedding light on the nature of dark matter and the origin of the universe.

Russia dropped the telescope into Lake Baikal

The group of scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), the Nuclear Research Institute (Dubna), Moscow National University and other scientific organizations have cooperated to manufacture and put into operation glass. van Dubna - a million-ton complex telescope device located deep in Lake Baikal , south of the Siberian region .

Groups of scientists working in Lake Baikal.

The Dubna telescopes are telescopes that detect neutrinos , a high-performance telescope that is used to study the melting core of temperatures up to millions of degrees Celsius of the Sun.

The Dubna composite telescope is composed of 192 independent optical modules and is located at a depth of 1.3 km below the water and is one of the 3 largest neutrino probes in the world. This will be the first functional cluster of future neutrino detection telescopes that will be named Baikal- GVD.

Neutrino particles are particles without mass or almost zero, unlike electrons, and do not carry electric charge. They do not change and rarely interact with other matter. They are the most mysterious things of particles known in the universe.

When entering Earth, neutrinos will interact and create a stream of charged particles . Radiations generated by an electrically charged particle are formed by neutrinos and move at a higher speed than the speed of light in water. That is exactly what the optical modules of the installation process will actually detect.

In Lake Baikal, it has been discovered that these particles of energy and the speed of travel are faster than the speed of light in water, but slower than the speed of light in vacuum. That's why the Dubna telescope is placed under the lake.

The study of Lake Baikal on high energy neutrino flows will help people better understand the movement of large energy sources existing in distant celestial bodies in the universe. At the same time, it helps to clarify the evolution of the universe as well as uncover clues of other mysterious rays.

The device for detecting neutrinos in the first stage of the giant telescope Baikal-GVD.

The next phase of the project includes the deployment of new modular clusters that will increase the function of neutrino detection telescopes. By 2020, a new 0.5-square-kilometer detector includes 10-12 modules that will be operational.

In the second phase of development, the Baikal telescope - GVD will be strengthened to assemble more than 27 modules and will be up to 1.5 km in size.

"These studies will be the key to understanding the early stages of the evolution of the universe, along with the nature of the formation of chemical elements, the evolution of stars and even making clarifying the nature of dark matter , "said Valery Rubakov, a leading scientist in nuclear physics of divisional Physics Science, Ham Lam RAS Institute.

One of the largest telescopes currently detecting neutrinos is IceCube, which covers an area of ​​1 square kilometer, made by American, German and Swedish scientists, lying in the ice at a depth of 1.5 km to 2 5km, not far from the research station Amundsen Scott of the US in the North Pole.

This telescope has been active since 2013 and has first discovered high energy neutrinos originating outside the solar system.