Scientists at CERN are slamming protons together at an unprecedented energy level in order to unlock our world's most enduring mysteries - including dark matter, which we know little about despite it accounting for 26.8 percent of all mass and energy.The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which restarted for its third run after undergoing extensive upgrades during its long shutdown, shattered energy records when it was turned back on today - enabling physicists to further study the Higgs Boson and what this particle's decay can reveal about the rest of the universe. The LHC broke a record when it hit 13.6 teraelectronvolts; to give a sense of the power being unleashed at the tunnel located 300 feet underground, a tera electron volt is equivalent to 1,000,000,000,000 electron volts.
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