Finding the Higgs boson, gravitational waves, and imaging a black hole's event horizon were huge. There's even more to the story.
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The Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator ever created by humanity, was constructed with the explicit goal of discovering this particle. By achieving energies never seen before in terrestrial accelerators and combining it with greater numbers of proton-proton collisions than ever before, scientists were able to at last reveal natures most elusive fundamental particle....
and its branching ratios, which show us how the Higgs boson is probabilistically likely to decay into various sets of particles. Although the indirect consequences of this radiation appeared in pulsar data long ago, the ultimate goal was always to detect these ripples directly. When a new generation of gravitational wave detectors came online in 2015, spearheaded by the LIGO collaboration, an entire new field was born: that of gravitational wave astronomy. For the first time, these ripples left observable, identifiable signals in human-created detectors, revealing their existence directly....
Up until very recently, humanity wasn't even sure that gravitational waves existed. We weren't sure these signals would show up in our instruments, or that our theoretical predictions would align with reality. The last four years have shown us that not only was Einstein right, but there's an entire Universe out there to explore beyond the detection of electromagnetic signals. This century promises to be the century of a new type of astronomy: gravitational wave astronomy.
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