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A visualization of a magnetar with tilted accretion disk and energetic polar jets.
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Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully of LCO
A spinning magnetar twists space-time itself, causing the disk of material around it to wobble and produce the ultra-bright flashes of this peculiar kind of supernova.

UCSB researcher bridges the worlds of general relativity and supernova astrophysics

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researchers at an optical table
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Matt Perko

UCSB’s Eddleman Quantum Institute announces new round of funding to accelerate quantum research
A pair of comets partially melt as they collide in an inset image, lower right, with the system’s young star and accretion disk in the background.
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Thomas Müller (MPIA/HdA)
Scientist imagine the scene when two comets collided in the Fomalhaut system, only 25 light years from Earth.

Astronomers discover huge dust clouds from violent collisions around nearby star
composite image of pictures of Nobel prize-winning physicists
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Matt Perko, with material from © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Clément Morin

UCSB physicists accept Nobel Prizes in Sweden
photo of detector being lowered
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Courtesy Image
The MicroBooNE detector being installed at Fermilab

MicroBooNE experiment finds no sign of light sterile neutrinos
Newton's cradle

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators awards to UCSB experimentalists opens the door to new insights and innovations
science illustration
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Illustration by Brian Long
Artist's concept illustration showing a two-dimensional collection of interacting spins in a diamond lattice.

A new dimension for spin qubits in diamond
illustration of two scientists
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Illustration Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
UCSB physics professors John Martinis, left, and Michel Devoret

UCSB physics professors John Martinis and Michel Devoret win 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
photo of the the LZ experiment's outer detector
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Matt Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Laboratory
The outer detector of the LZ dark matter experiment

Physicists tighten the net on elusive dark matter
Gary Horowitz in blue collared shirt on blue background.
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Jeff Liang
Gary Horowitz

Gary Horowitz awarded Dirac Medal for contributions to theoretical physics
artists' rendering of a sun and its planet-forming disk
Artist's rendering of a young star surrounded by its protoplanetary disk, with elements furnished by NASA's Hubble Telescope

Some young suns are aligned with their planet-forming disks, others are born tilted
images of six galaxies taken with the James Webb Space Telescope
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M. Franco / C. Casey / COSMOS-Web collaboration
Six images of galaxies taken from nearly 800,000, from upper left to lower right: the present-day universe, and 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10 billion years ago

Mapping space: Largest map of the universe announced
woman with dark hair in forest
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Lyn Photography
Physicist and computer science assistant professor Murphy Yuezhen Niu

Murphy Niu receives NSF CAREER award for quantum computing innovation
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