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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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Field site in China

Earth Research Institute to Collaborate with Beijing Lab
LUX photomultiplier tubes

Science Journal Nature Names LUX as a Scientific Highlight of the Year
SNLS-06D4eu and its host galaxy

Powerful Ancient Explosions Explain New Class of Supernovae

Two Engineering Professors Named to National Academy of Inventors

'A Golden Age of Mathematics'
photo of lit lightbulb

Keeping the Lights On

Spy vs Spy

May the Cellular Force Be With You
Illustration of Guillermo Bazan's synthetic oligoelectrolytes

Bio-inspired Research Expands at UCSB with Army Funding Renewal

Algorithms Are Watching
Map of gene mutation origin

Origin of Alzheimer’s Gene Mutation Discovered

The Ultimate Rat Race
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