Magnetars: The strongest magnets in the universe – Big Think

• In a new study, scientists describe a magnetar’s bizarre behavior.
• Magnetars are neutron stars with extremely powerful magnetic fields.
• The strange space objects also emit radio bursts that reach Earth.

Astronomers recently witnessed very strange behavior from a magnetar, a peculiar kind of rotating neutron star that also happens to be one of the strongest magnets in the universe.
Magnetars are essentially remains of dead stars with amazingly strong magnetic fields that also emit mysterious radio…

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