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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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Ray Adkins portrait
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Debra Herrick

New physics Ph.D. Ray Adkins is bound for Yale, prestigious award in hand, to apply his research to neuroscience
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Planetary defense project selected for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program
“Particle physics isn’t dead,” reads the blackboard behind an expressive physicist presenting to a packed audience.
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Harrison Tasoff
Although the LHC only discovered one new particle, “particle physics isn’t dead,” physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed exclaims in the program’s packed final talk.

Physicists gather to chart a path for the next kind of particle collider
Gary Horowitz wears glasses and a blue shirt in a dark room
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Matt Perko
Gary Horowitz

Physicist Gary Horowitz receives 2023 Einstein Prize from the American Physical Society
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Two assistant professors in Department of Physics receive Sloan Research Fellowships
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Becoming a Quantum Mechanic

Enhancing Research

‘Out of the Starting Gate’

The Higgs Discovery at 10

Keeping the Energy in the Room

The Star That Survived a Supernova

A Flicker From the Dark
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