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From TPM-The picture below is likely the Higgs-Boson evidenced by the Electron Decay from the Large Hadron Collider.

Scientists have announced the discovery of an entirely new kind of particle that is almost certainly the long-sought “God particle,” the Higgs boson.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the international scientific agency that had been leading the hunt for the particle, made the announcement of a new particle “consistent” with the Higgs boson on early Wednesday in Geneva.

“We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature,” said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer in a statement. “The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle’s properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe.”

The Higgs boson is the last missing piece scientists needed to explain how all matter in the universe has mass under the Standard Model, the most-widely accepted theory of particle physics.

The finding comes after weeks of speculation and rumor, even an accidental leak of information ahead of the announcement when CERN posted a press video on Tuesday.

CERN scientists wrapped up three months of proton collision experiments performed at nearly the speed of light using the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, a 17-mile-around ring located underground by CERN’s headquarters near Geneva, Switzerland.

It was in the minuscule debris produced by these collisions, which last for only fractions of a second before decaying into more stable known particles, that scientists were able to find traces of the particle which they believe is Higgs.

CERN published the following video of one of the collisions that may have produced the Higgs particle.