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And it needed the world’s biggest atom smasher CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to produce the extreme surge of energies simulating those 1 trillionth to 2 trillionths of a second after the Big Bang.

In such a universe, a black hole appearing inside an atom smasher becomes much more feasible, potentially revealing insights into the very nature of gravity.

Published last week in Physical Review Letters, the method should be widely useful, including in making predictions to be tested at the world’s biggest atom smasher, Europe’s Large Hadron Collider.

Some Ukrainian physicists are calling for Russia to be expelled from the laboratory, site of three Nobel Prize–winning discoveries and home to the world’s biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider.

Or, if physicists are lucky, the world’s biggest atom smasher, Europe’s Large Hadron Collider, will blast some new particle into plain view when it comes back online next spring after 3 years of upgrades.