The magnetic fields lacing through galaxy clusters and cosmic filaments have no business being there. The early universe was a hot, smooth soup of particles with no mechanism to spin up the enormous ...

In the first moments after the birth of the universe, there was an unusual state of matter in which quarks and gluons moved ...

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Scientists reveal correlated flow of particles emerging from even the lowest-energy, small-scale collisions at Big-Bang particle collider. Particles emerging from even the lowest energy collisions of ...

A particle collider experiment just revealed something unexpected about how the fiery soup of particles that filled the ...

Our universe started with a bang that blasted everything into existence. But what happened next is a mystery. Scientists think that before atoms formed—or even the protons and neutrons they’re made of ...

Listen to story summary Over the course of 20 years, physicists have confirmed that a primordial state of matter known as quark-gluon plasma behaves like a liquid. Now, researchers at the University ...

In the early stages of the Universe, quarks and gluons were quickly confined to protons and neutrons which went on to form atoms. With particle accelerators reaching increasingly higher energy levels ...

Magnetic fields thread the largest structures in the observable universe. They trace the filaments of the cosmic web, wind through galaxy clusters, and stretch across voids spanning billions of ...

A new special edition of EPJ Special Topics brings together several papers that detail our understanding of Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) and the processes that transformed it into the baryonic matter we ...