CERN’s “Big Bang” experiment was able to accelerate beams to the highest energy level ever achieved in a particle collider, setting a world record of 1.18 trillion electric volts (TeV).

The European Organization for Nuclear Research announced that the achievement is a major milestone, and they hope that it can unlock the secrets of the origins and composition of the universe.

The twin beam experiment in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva surpassed the energy produced of the previous highest, which was recorded to be below 1 TeV at the United States Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

CERN Director General Rolf Heuer said, “We are still coming to terms with just how smooth the LHC commissioning is going. It is fantastic.”

Scientists at CERN will continue to work on enhancing the beam intensity and creating high quality collision data over the next few weeks. They hope to learn how matter and anti-matter were created, and prove if the so-called “Higgs Boson” really exists.

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