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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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MicroRNAs Provide New Insight in Study of Autism, UCSB Scientist Reports

UCSB Professor's Paper on Safety of Large Hadron Collider to be Published in Physical Review D

UC Santa Barbara Recreation Center Gains Green Building Certification

Conference Inaugurates Spatial Reasoning and Technologies Center at UCSB

Fellowships Support UCSB Graduate Student's Research in Homeland Security

UCSB Biologist Receives National Award For Excellence

Prominent Physicist to Discuss Black Hole at Center of Milky Way Galaxy

UCSB Receives $3.2 Stem Cell Grant From State

Award Lecture by Distinguished Chemist Examines Nanostructures and Energy

New Book by UCSB Historian Examines Citizen-Scientists and the Dawn of the Space Age

UC Santa Barbara Adopts Comprehensive Sustainability Plan

Upcoming National Conference Bridges Neuroscience and Education
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