Oxygen collisions at CERN reveal clues about universe’s earliest moments
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Scientists at CERN smashed oxygen atoms together in the Large Hadron Collider and detected jet quenching, a sign of quark-gluon plasma, the state of matter that existed microseconds after the Big Bang. This makes oxygen the smallest nuclear system ever recorded showing this effect. Surprisingly, particles behaved like a near-perfect liquid rather than a gas, giving researchers new insight into the universe's earliest moments.
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