<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>Researchers studied how heavy particles containing charm and bottom quarks behave under extreme conditions similar to those after the Big Bang.</li><li>By analyzing collisions at particle accelerators like the LHC and RHIC, temperatures hotter than the Sun's center are generated, creating a quark-gluon plasma state.</li><li>The transition of this plasma into hadronic matter helps in understanding the evolution of matter from the chaotic early universe to its structured form today.</li><li>The study reveals the importance of the cooling phase post-plasma for observing heavy hadron interactions, providing insights into the fundamental properties of matter under extreme conditions.</li></ul>

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