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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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Joe Incandela in black suit

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Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Bolsters Research Connections
LUX photomultiplier tubes

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'A Golden Age of Mathematics'

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Winner of 2014 Physics Frontiers Prize

UCSB Professor Wins 2014 Physics Frontiers Prize
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