After the discovery 💫 Over 12 years ago, the ATLAS Experiment at CERN and CMS Experiment at CERN at the #LHC announced the discovery of a particle with characteristics consistent with those of the #HiggsBoson. The discovery was recognised with the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013, awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their theoretical work. Since then, physicists have continued studying this mysterious particle to learn more about our #Universe. Watch Haider (ATLAS) and Cristina (CMS) sha

2M views · 6.1K reactions | We asked Peter Higgs to describe the Higgs field - which gives particles in our universe mass - in a simple way. Higgs was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics along with François Englert for the theory of how particles acquire mass. Learn more: https://bit.ly/30ktoHs | Nobel Prize | Facebook