When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA has released a new image of ripples in dust clouds created by an unexpected black hole X-ray ...

In the first millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was a roiling, trillion-degree plasma of quarks and gluons — elementary particles that briefly glommed together in countless ...

Physicists have found evidence of X particles in the quark-gluon plasma produced in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, based near Geneva, ...