Posted on July 1, 2022, 4:20 pm By professorrosado
Research More At iKnowdle!The case is building that colliding neutron stars create magnetars
Magnetars are some of the most fascinating astronomical objects. One teaspoon of the stuff they are made out of would weigh almost one billion tons, and they have magnetic fields that are hundreds of millions of times more powerful than any magnetic field that exists today on Earth. But we don’t know much about how they form. A new paper points to one possible source—mergers of neutron stars.
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