For the first time ever scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found the source of a high-energy neutrino from outside our galaxy The neutrino came from the eruption of a supermassive black hole at the center of a type of galaxy called a blazar The eruption jetted out particles moving near the speed of light Collisions inside the jet produced gamma rays the highest energy form of light and neutrinos ghostly particles that rarely interact with matter On September 22nd 2017 a single high-energy neutrino struck an atom in a water molecule in the Antarctic ice It's the first time a neutrino could be traced back to a black hole or to any source beyond our immediate galactic

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