Whirlpools might have stirred up baby universe’s soup

Computer simulations suggest possibility of vortices in quark-gluon plasma

quark-gluon plasma illustration

HOT STUFF  A collision of two heavy ions produces an extremely hot, dense state of matter called quark-gluon plasma (illustration shown). Computer simulations indicate that swirling patterns could form in this material.

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Complex swirls and vortices can appear in the souplike phase of matter that existed just moments after the Big Bang.