Russian scientists have launched one of the world’s biggest underwater neutrino telescopes called the Baikal-GVD (Gigaton Volume Detector) in the waters of Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest lake situated in Siberia.
- The telescope will search neutrinos-the tiniest known particles in the universe. Neutrinos are everywhere, but they interact so weakly with the forces around them that they’re hugely challenging to detect.
- The Baikal-GVD is one of the three largest neutrino detectors in the world along with the IceCube at the South Pole and ANTARES in the Mediterranean Sea.
- Neutrino detectors are typically built underground to shield them from cosmic rays and other sources of interference.
(Source: Live Science )
