Scientists said on Tuesday that they have been able to solve a 50-year-old puzzle about the building blocks of matter. Data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) proved the presence of pentaquarks, particles made up of five quarks.

In 1964, Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig theorized the existence of sub-atomic particles. It is now that it has been found. LHCb spokesperson Guy Wilkinson said that pentaquark represents a way of aggregating quarks. Quarks are made up of small ingredients of sub-atomic particles like protons and neutrons.

“We have no other way of explaining what we have seen. But the scientific method is such that we have submitted a paper to a journal, the journal will consider it, then the community will judge”, stated Wilkinson.

Since the time, the LHC has started smashing protons together scientists have been able to get abundant of data. The analysis of the data has proved the existence of the Higgs Boson and now, scientists wants to explore more about dark universe, which they think is present beyond the visible universe.

Wilkinson said that they will look for other five-quark particles and will research them thoroughly. They want to know more about its nature. The research will help understanding many things, including fate of the stars at the end of their life.

Wilkinson affirmed that it is not known why its discovery took so many years. He thinks that there must be many pentaquarks out there. They have found two.