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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.

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September 17, 2012

International Team of Physicists Makes Discovery About Temperature in Convection

August 23, 2012

New Findings Show Some Type Ia Supernovae Linked to Novae

August 21, 2012

UCSB Scientist Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award

August 20, 2012

UCSB Researchers Demonstrate That 15=3x5 About Half of the Time

July 31, 2012

UC Santa Barbara Physics Professor Lars Bildsten Named Director of Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

July 5, 2012

‘Observation of New Particle' Presented at Historic CERN Seminar by UC Santa Barbara Professor Joe Incandela

Professors Joel Rothman (left) and Boris Shraiman

May 29, 2012

UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute Receives Two Grants to Explore Interface of Physics and Biology

May 22, 2012

UCSB Physicist Uses Art to Make Physics More Accessible to Students

May 16, 2012

Three-Telescope Interferometry Allows Astrophysicists to Observe How Black Holes are Fueled

April 24, 2012

In Protein Folding, Internal Friction May Play a More Significant Role than Previously Thought

April 4, 2012

Quantum Control Protocols Could Lead to More Accurate, Larger Scale Quantum Computations

March 28, 2012

UCSB Physicists Mix Two Lasers to Create Light at Many Frequencies

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