Astronauts create exotic <x0 mometer” at the International Space Station

And findings can change our understanding of physics and nature to a fundamental level.

Researchers saw astronauts generating the fifth state of matter, the Bose-Einstein condensate. It is done when botone gas is cooled to almost absolutely zero, writes Independent, translates Periscope.

At these extreme temperatures, matter begins to behave strangely; atoms become a single entity, displaying quantum properties.

As such, they are bridges between the microscopic world that are often governed by unexpected processes of quantum mechanics and the macroscopic world that apply classical physics.

Scientists hope to use the Bose-Einstein Condensate to gain more knowledge of quantum mechanics. But they've had trouble because gravity can prevent their measurements. /Periscope