What exactly is the Higgs boson?

 HIGGS BOSON

The Universe is made up of number of atoms and they are made up of electrons, protons and neutrons and each of them are made up of number of microscopic sub-atomic particles like quarks. They are normally scattered in a vaccum field where they are expected to gain some energies from a particle called higgs field. The term which the object gains energy from higgs field called higgs effect.

This was first discovered by Higgs et al. in 1960s named after him. But was scientifically proven in 21st century where the group of scientists used LHC and made some quarks to collide which in turn it produces some kind of particles and they named it higgs boson.