This is prepared for a featured article in Nuclear Physics News. Recently, the global polarization of Lambda and bar{Lambda} hyperons in heavy-ion collisions (HIC) has been observed by the STAR Collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Brookhaven National Laboratory. The discovery confirms the theoretical prediction made more than ten years ago and indicates that the quark gluon plasma (QGP) produced in HIC possesses a vorticity as high as 10^21s^-1, much higher than any other fluid observed in nature. This opens a new window to study properties of QGP and a new direction in high energy heavy ion physics. This featured article is aimed to report the basic idea, current status and outlook.
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