The Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor.

Brandon Vigliarolo   The Register29 June 2026
Physicists at CERN are still bidding goodbye to the LHC, per a Monday announcement from the lab, but this is very much a “the king is dead, long live the king” sort of moment, as the four-year shutdown will result in the completion of the High-Luminosity LHC, or HiLumi LHC, not a full-fledged replacement.