Ten years after the Higgs boson was discovered, a lot is still unknown

Ten years after the Higgs boson was discovered, a lot is still unknown (Maximilien Brice/CERN)

A decade on from the “monumental” discovery of the Higgs boson – the “God particle” that gives matter mass and holds the physical fabric of the universe together – researchers say there is still a lot more to learn about it.

The landmark discovery of the particle was made at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – the “Big Bang” atom-smasher near Geneva – and announced exactly 10 years ago by Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.