What's Current in

Physics + Astronomy

A visualization of a magnetar with tilted accretion disk and energetic polar jets.
Photo Credit
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

Read Article

Brains, Worms, and Computer Chips Have Striking Similarities

Astronomers Find Nine New Planets and Upset the Theory of Planetary Formation

International Team of Scientists Reports Discovery of a New Planet

Physicists Show Theory of Quantum Mechanics Applies to the Motion of Large Objects

Astronomically Large Lenses Measure the Age and Size of the Universe

Scientists Observe Super-Massive Black Holes Using Keck Observatory in Hawaii

UCSB Physicists Move One Step Closer to Quantum Computing

New Type of Supernova Explosion Reported; Predicted by Theoretical Physicists at UCSB

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara Make Discovery in Quantum Mechanics

UCSB Scientist Appointed to New Post at Large Hadron Collider Experiment

UCSB Researchers Describe Breakthrough in the Quantum Control of Light

Las Cumbres Observatory Lecture: Taking the Universe's Baby Picture
Subscribe to Physics + Astronomy