Antimatter atom trapped for first time

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Kasz216 said:

So they had to up and make it eh?

I remember a discovery a year or two back where they thought they discovered some naturally hidden on earth.

Antimatter has been known about for a long time, but this is the first time that atoms of antimatter have been trapped. That's never been done before, this is a great chance to finally study antimatter atoms (or at least a significant step in the right direction to study them).

Usually the antimatter sub atomic particles (anti-protons and positrons) are obliterated by coming into contact with regular matter before it can form an atom, releasing a lot of energy and not giving us time to observe an atom. Before now we've only really had chance to study the sub atomic anti-particles.