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We've moved! For the latest updates on the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, please follow the NASA Universe account. You can always keep track of us at http://nasa.gov/swift .

Big news today in the realm of Multi-messenger astrophysics! It's not just about Gravitational Waves, the IceCube instrument at the south pole detects Cosmic Neutrinos, and for the first time since 1987, we believe that we found where they are coming from.

Swift played a big part in this discovery, thanks to a program that rapidly responds to triggers from IceCube, Swift's X-ray telescope was the first focused telescope to start the hunt for the source of the Neutrino detecti...on.

We identified the blazar, TXS 0506+056, as one of the sources of interest near the event, which Fermi later confirmed was flaring in Gamma-rays.

https://www.nasa.gov/…/nasa-s-fermi-traces-source-of-cosmic…

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