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An artist's concept of a distant galaxy with an active quasar at its center shooting out bright jets of radiation above and below the galactic disc.
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NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)
A quasar emits exceptional amounts of energy generated by matter falling into a supermassive black hole.

The earliest quasars yet observed are shedding light on the infancy of our cosmos

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Coming Home Again

Academic Honors
photo of Matthew Pelliccione

‘We Need More Matts Around the Lab’
UCSB Chancellor Yang and Theodore Kim

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Joseph Polchinski Named 59th Annual Faculty Research Lecturer

Superconducting Qubit Array Points the Way to Quantum Computers

Two UCSB Faculty Members Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

One Kind of Supersymmetry Shown to Emerge Naturally

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Funding Boosts Quantum Materials Theory Research

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