Physicists just saw quarks make waves in the Big Bang’s primordial soup

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What happened

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have captured the clearest evidence yet that quark-gluon plasma, the scorching-hot matter that filled the newborn universe, behaves like a true liquid.

Key facts

  • Reported by ScienceDaily and published Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:04:50 UTC.

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