A powerful new technique harnesses swirling plasma inside laser-blasted microtubes to produce record-breaking magnetic fields—rivaling those near neutron stars—all within a compact laboratory setup.

The main trait that sets magnetars apart from other neutron stars is a magnetic field 1,000 to 10,000 times stronger than an ordinary neutron star's magnetism and a trillion times that of the sun.

Spinning neutron star gains enormous magnetic fields. Newcastle University. Journal Nature Astronomy DOI 10.1038/s41550-025-02477-y. Keywords ...

Heavy-ion collisions involve the collision of positively charged nuclei of heavy elements at nearly the speed of light. These ...

Short-lived neutron stars may explain both the extreme magnetic fields of black holes and gamma ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe ...

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 ...

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

Researchers at The University of Osaka have developed a novel method for generating ultrahigh magnetic fields via laser-driven implosions of ...

Astronomers have caught a highly magnetic dead star, or "magnetar," in the Milky Way briefly acting like a pulsar, a type of neutron star that rapidly rotates. The magnetar put on its pulsar ...

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

Magnetars are among the universe's most extreme objects - a class of the compact stellar remnants called neutron stars that possess immensely strong magnetic fields. Once in a while, they produce ...

Scientists have proved the existence of a magnetic effect that could explain why solar-like stars spin very slowly at the end of their lifetime. Researchers from the Leibniz-Institut fuer ...