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When the black hole sucks all that light-producing plasma toward its cosmically horrific maw, the magnetic field around the black hole whips the unpolarized plasma-light chaos into a tight and orderly rhythm, polarizing it.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2024

In polarized light, light waves oscillate in specific directions rather than randomly in all directions, as they would in unpolarized light.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024

But the data from POLAR, which flew in 2016, suggested that the gamma rays were unpolarized.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2022

Figure 27.43 illustrates what happens when unpolarized light is reflected from a surface.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

At the moment of emerging from the cloud, M. Barral made polariscopic observation, which established a fact foreseen by M. Arago, that the light reflected from the surface of the clouds, was unpolarized light.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various