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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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Joe Incandela in black suit

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Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

Funding Boosts Quantum Materials Theory Research

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Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Bolsters Research Connections
LUX photomultiplier tubes

Science Journal Nature Names LUX as a Scientific Highlight of the Year
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