Tag Archive for: UCLA Physical Sciences

That Supermassive Black Hole in our Galaxy? It has a Friend.

Smadar Naoz is an associate professor of physics and astronomy…
Image of interstellar comet.

New NASA image provides more details about first observed interstellar comet

A new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope provides…
Picture of Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim.

Activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim wins Pritzker Award for young environmental innovators

The UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability presented…

UCLA astronomer gets best look at first comet from outside our solar system

David Jewitt, a UCLA professor of planetary science and astronomy,…

Black hole at the center of our galaxy appears to be getting hungrier

The enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy is having…
Photo of artist rendering of SO-2 star.

Einstein’s general relativity theory is questioned but still stands ‘for now,’ team reports

More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic…
Photo of smoggy Los Angeles skyline

Air quality app influences behavior by linking environment to health

Nine out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air and…

Mathematician named a Great Immigrant by Carnegie Corporation

  Terence Tao, professor of mathematics, who holds…
Photo of Richard Kaner, with Maher El-Kady, holding a replica of an energy storage and conversion device the pair developed.

Creating electricity from snowfall and making hydrogen cars affordable

Professor Richard Kaner and researcher Maher El-Kady have…