Giant Chinese Orb Detects “Ghost Particles” While Buried Under Mountain

For decades, scientists have scavenged for mysterious the “ghost particles” known as neutrinos, which are subatomic particles with no mass and almost no electrical charge. Despite their elusive nature, ghost particles are theorized to be the most common matter particles in the universe, with trillions of the buggers passing through our bodies every second.

Though numerous groups have observed neutrinos, their low-energy nature makes them incredibly hard to detect, with a number of early breakthroughs taking place throughout 2025.

Now, after ten years of construction, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in China is hoping for some breakthroughs of its own.

JUNO is a spherical neutrino detector, a hulking 20,000-tonne orb nestled deep under the mountains of Kaiping in sou