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Pinning down the structure of quark-gluon plasma, the universe's first fluid

Source: Phys.org · Published 5 Nov 2026, 23:10

In the first fraction of a second following the Big Bang, matter existed as a trillion-degree plasma of quarks and gluons—subatomic particles that zinged around at close to the speed of light. This roiling soup lasted for just a few microseconds before the particles coalesced into more stable protons and neutrons.

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