Ice Cube Explained: Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory at the University of Wisconsin Madison

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is the first detector of its kind, designed to observe the cosmos from deep within the South Pole ice. Encompassing a cubic kilometer of ice, IceCube searches for nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos. These highenergy astronomical messengers provide information to probe the most violent astrophysical sources: events like exploding stars, gammaray bursts, and cataclysmic phenomena involving black holes and neutron stars. APSTV talked to scientists at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the University of WisconsinMadison to understand just how this massive detector came to be.