Mysterious magnetar boasts one of strongest magnetic fields in Universe

Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 12:30 in Astronomy & Space

Scientists using ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope have discovered that a curious dead star has been hiding one of the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe all along, despite earlier suggestions of an unusually low magnetic field.

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