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Name: UIC scientists recreate the universe’s first moments by slamming together oxygen ions
Uploaded: 2025-11-17T12:00:00-06:00
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Description: At the Large Hadron Collider, physicists study quark-gluon plasma, which filled the universe right after the Big Bang.

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland

November 17, 2025

UIC scientists recreate the universe’s first moments by slamming together oxygen ions

At the Large Hadron Collider, physicists study quark-gluon plasma, which filled the universe right after the Big Bang.

April 18, 2014

Collider reveals sharp change from ‘quark soup’ to atoms

New discovery addresses central question about origin of the universe