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Visualizing Science 2017: Finding the Hidden Beauty in College Research

Five years ago the College of Natural Sciences began an annual tradition called Visualizing Science with the intent of finding the inherent beauty hidden within scholarly research.

This image shows the turbulent gas structures in a three-dimensional, multi-physics supercomputer simulation during the formation of such massive clusters, with the red-to-violet rainbow spectrum representing gas at high-to-low densities.

Quanta Magazine

19 Women Leading Math and Physics

Katherine Freese, The Weinberg Institute for Theoretical Physics Director, is featured in this list of 19 Women Leading Math and Physics

19 Women Leading Math and Physics

Global Citizen

17 Famous Female Scientists Who Helped Change the World

Katherine Freese, Director of the Weinberg Institute, is among the 17 featured.

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Testing General Relativity

Scientists from UT Austin once traveled to the Sahara Desert to observe a rare eclipse and used computers to model ripples in space and time unleashed by the mergers of black holes

A man stands on a ladder outside a white hut in the desert

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Can General Relativity, at 100, Withstand Some Holes?

Answering some of the biggest questions in astrophysics—for example, about black holes and the origin of the universe—might require overhauling general relativity.

Illustration of a black hole