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The Higgs Boson
On the timeline · around 2012 ·
What happened
In 2012, scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider — the largest machine ever built — announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, a particle predicted almost 50 years earlier. The Higgs is tied to the field that gives other particles their mass, filling in the last missing piece of the Standard Model.
Why it matters
Finding the Higgs boson was a triumph of both theory and experiment, confirming our best understanding of how particles get mass and crowning decades of work. It shows how far physics has come — and points toward the deep questions that remain.
Sources
- CERN. The Higgs Boson · Reputable source