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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.

June 4, 2002

UCSB TO NAME INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS FOR INDUSTRIALIST AND PHILANTHROPIST FRED KAVLI

May 8, 2002

UCSB PHYSICIST TO DISCUSS ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY AND THE WONDERS OF BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES

December 20, 2001

Kavli Gives $7.5 Million to Institute of Theoretical Physics To Be Named in His Honor

December 11, 2001

New Type of Neutrino May Exist Say Scientists

October 30, 2001

Scientists Expect to "See" Miniature Black Holes

August 27, 2001

ASTEROID NAMED FOR UCSB NOBELIST

July 11, 2001

PHYSICISTS GET TO HEART OF MATTER

June 4, 2001

NEW X-RAY IMAGES SHOW PROMISE OF STAR FORMATION

February 14, 2001

UCSB's LANGER ELECTED V.P. OF NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

December 18, 2000

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION AWARDS INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS LARGEST SINGLE FEDERAL RESEARCH GRANT EVER MADE TO UCSB

October 26, 2000

UCSB PHYSICIST WINS PRESTIGIOUS PACKARD FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP

July 11, 2000

FIRST X-RAY FLARE FROM BROWN DWARF OBSERVED

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