I peeked in on the house-sized particle detector known as STAR just after it took its last-ever snapshot of one of the most extreme types of fireball ever created. Inside, the conditions just after ...

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of fundamental particles heated to trillions of degrees. But this seething primordial ...

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) collisions have helped scientists map out many points in this nuclear landscape, including how matter made of hadrons, including protons and atomic nuclei, ...

The particle collider smashes together atomic nuclei—comprised of particles called protons and neutrons—to break them into their smaller components. Tiffany Bowman / Brookhaven National Laboratory For ...

The largest particle collider in the US, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), has completed its final particle collisions after a quarter-century, recreating the conditions of the early ...

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the largest particle collider in the United States, collided its last particles in early February. RHIC is a massive accelerator ring and set of instruments ...