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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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Mixing Massive Stars

‘A Sense of Belonging’

Come One, Come All
Bill Paxton looks out at the the ocean from the cupola of Kohn Hall.

An Accidental Astrophysicist

Sophisticated Skin

Scholars of Outstanding Promise
An artist’s interpretation of a quasar and the black hole at its center.

A Most Distant Signal

Enlightening Dark Ions

Here’s Looking at You, MKID

Excellence Cited

Physics at Your Fingertips

Coming Together, Virtually
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