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Mini-Universe in a Lab: Creating “Cosmic Fireballs” on Earth


An international team of scientists has developed a novel way to experimentally produce plasma ‘fireballs’ on Earth. Researchers have successfully generated relativistic electron-positron plasmas in a laboratory setting, simulating conditions found near black holes and neutron stars. This groundb

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