"Scientists Recreate The Big Bang": 1,000 Ton Detector Captures Quark Gluon Plasma That Existed Moments After Universe Began While Tracking 15,000 Collisions Per Second

Illustration of the sPHENIX detector capturing remnants of quark-gluon plasma at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

“Scientists Recreate The Big Bang”: 1,000 Ton Detector Captures Quark Gluon Plasma That Existed Moments After Universe Began While Tracking 15,000 Collisions Per Second