US largest particle collider smashes gold ions at near-light speed
Researchers in the US have turned to the world’s first heavy-ion collider to smash gold nuclei together at…
A New Helium Measurement Is Testing the Universe’s First Five Minutes
The research team focused on 15 of the most “pristine” small, remote galaxies ever discovered for these papers.…
Largest-Ever Physics Survey Raises New Doubts About Our Model of the Universe
A global survey of physicists reveals strikingly little consensus on some of the deepest questions in modern physics,…
CERN physicists recreate matter from the early universe using ‘Little Big Bangs’
Physicists created signs of primordial quark-gluon plasma by colliding oxygen and neon nuclei, much smaller nuclei than traditionally…
The Milky Way may have merged with another galaxy shortly after the Big Bang
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An artist’s illustration showing two galaxies. Since its formation, the Milky Way has merged…
Three supermassive black holes have been discovered in the same galaxy
If black holes fascinate astronomers, it is mainly because of their power, but also because of the many…
Rocky Planets May Have Started Forming Just 100 Million Years after Big Bang
New simulations suggest supernova explosions of the Universe’s first stars scattered the ingredients for rocky planets only 100…
ATLAS breaks its own record with new search for double-Higgs production
Producing two Higgs bosons in a single proton-proton collision is among the rarest processes at the LHC. Yet…
‘Stuart Fails to Save the Universe’ brings familiar faces
Similarly, “Stuart’s” stars were eager to step into the spotlight. On “Big Bang,” Sussman’s Stuart frequently milled in…
The universe isn’t as uniform as we thought
Modern cosmology rests on a simple assumption: if we look on large enough scales, matter should be distributed…
God Particle detector shut for four years: Here’s what will happen in 2030
The world’s most powerful particle accelerator has gone silent, but only for now. The European Council for Nuclear…
What is the God particle: How the Higgs boson changed our understanding of the universe |
Image(s): Left/AI Generated/Right/Wikipedia For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature’s puzzle, an elusive particle believed…