Oxygen collisions at the LHC show new indications of extreme state of matter

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Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider show new signs that collisions of oxygen and neon nuclei may produce an extreme state of matter similar to conditions microseconds after the Big Bang. This discovery supports theories about the earliest phase of the universe.

All four main LHC experiments have found new signs that oxygen and neon collisions may create the extreme state of matter that existed during the first microseconds after the Big Bang.