CERN finds Big Bang matter in small collisions

CERN's Large Hadron Collider has found that even relatively small atomic collisions can create quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter that filled the universe just after the Big Bang. This exotic substance forms at temperatures over 100,000 times hotter than the Sun's core, breaking ordinary particles into their fundamental building blocks. The discovery suggests that the conditions for recreating this primordial soup may be more common than previously thought. Why it matters: it expands our understanding of how matter behaves at extreme energies and could sharpen models of the early universe.

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