A powerful new technique harnesses swirling plasma inside laser-blasted microtubes to produce record-breaking magnetic fields ...

In the vastness of the universe, there are many awe-inspiring objects, but few are as terrifying as magnetars. These cosmic ...

Neutron stars, the extraordinarily dense stellar bodies created when massive stars collapse, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the universe -- as much as a billion times more ...

Neutron stars, the extraordinarily dense stellar bodies created when massive stars collapse, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the universe -- as much as a billion times more ...

Unlike most objects in space (including other neutron stars and planet Earth), neutron star GRO J2058+42 doesn't have two simple magnetic poles at its north and south ends. Instead, it has a ...

A neutron star is the extremely compressed leftover core of a star that began life with between 10 and 30 times the Sun’s mass. Moving charges do. generate magnetic fields, as you suggest ...

While magnetic heating had been expected in "magnetars" -- neutron stars with very high magnetic fields -- the study provides the first evidence that heating also occurs in stars with much lower ...

Magnetars are neutron stars with the universe's most powerful magnetic fields, often hundreds of trillions of times more powerful than Earth's magnetosphere.. Low-field magnetars, first discovered ...

The astronomers found the neutron stars’ existing magnetic fields amplify some 2,000 times in the instant the stars merge. This is long before the collapse can proceed to its likely final state ...

A computer simulation shows how two neutron stars of unequal mass merge, form a black hole and spit out a jet of high energy matter.

The duo reckon that these “magnetically supramassive” neutron stars could then stave off collapse for roughly 1–10 years as the strength of the magnetic field wanes. The exact timescale depends on the ...