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Ben Turner

Heaviest antimatter particle ever discovered could hold secrets to our universe's origins

An artist's illustration of an antihyperhydrogen-4 antimatter nucleus being created from the collision of two gold nuclei.

Scientists have spotted the heaviest antimatter nucleus ever detected lurking in a particle accelerator.

The antimatter heavyweight, called antihyperhydrogen-4, is made up of an antiproton, two antineutrons and one antihyperon (a baryon that contains a strange quark). Physicists found traces of this antimatter among particle tracks from 6 billion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.

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