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Bizarre, Never-Seen-Before Activity Spotted From One of the Strongest Magnets in the Universe – SciTechDaily
Astronomers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) and CSIRO have just observed bizarre, never-seen-before behavior from a…
Artist’s impression of the active magnetar Swift J1818.0-1607. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav
Astronomers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) and CSIRO have just observed bizarre, never-seen-before behavior from a ‘radio-loud’ magnetar—a rare type of neutron star and one of the strongest magnets in the Universe.
Their new findings, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), suggest magnetars have more complex magnetic fields than…
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