Photo: Large Hadron Collider "Actually Worked"

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Two magnets of the Large Hadron Collider are seen before they are connected together in an undated photo.

The world's biggest science experiment went off on Wednesday, September 10, without a hitch as researchers guided the first beam of protons around the collider.

Photograph © CERN

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