If you are looking for research related to the game (specifically AI or physics), a recent prominent paper is:

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Uses computer vision to detect balls and tables from a single photo and Reinforcement Learning (RL) to suggest the optimal shot .

Jonas Myhre Schiøtt, Viktor Sebastian Petersen, Dim P. Papadopoulos.