The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the world's most powerful particle accelerator. It smashes subatomic particles at immense speeds to recreate early...
The LHC is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, located at CERN, designed to collide protons and heavy ions at near-light speeds to study fundamental particles and forces.
Its primary purpose is to advance our understanding of fundamental physics by recreating conditions shortly after the Big Bang, searching for new particles, and investigating the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
The most famous discovery was the Higgs boson in 2012, confirming the existence of the particle responsible for giving other fundamental particles mass, a crucial component of the Standard Model of particle physics.
It is located at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) on the border between France and Switzerland, near Geneva, buried about 100 meters underground.