At the CERN Large Hadron Collider, lead nuclei (left) are collided to form a quark-gluon plasma (middle), which eventually decays into particles (right). In an atomic nucleus, the size of the neutron ...

Neutron stars are the densely compact cores remaining as one possible result of a supernova. These star remnants are ...

Physicists at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, have used supercomputer simulations to predict a specific gravitational-wave fingerprint that would confirm quark-gluon plasma forms inside the ...

Understanding why we live in a matter-dominated universe demands that scientists recreate the quark-gluon plasma that existed one millionth of a second after the Big Bang. A Large Ion Collider ...

With a buoy of Inflation Reduction Act funding, Jefferson Lab is helping design and build a first-of-its-kind collider in New York to learn more about matter at the smallest scale DOE/Thomas Jefferson ...

High-energy cosmic rays, 10 million times more powerful than particles accelerated in Earth's strongest atom smasher, may ...