New results from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) provide strong evidence that smashing oxygen nuclei together at nearly the speed of light generates a quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a type of matter that existed just after the birth of the universe. The data, just pu...
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-10-oxygen-collisions-evidence-jet-quenching.html)