How to grow a cosmic magnetic field – Mirage News

Graduate student Muni Zhou shows how tiny magnetic seed fields can expand to cosmic proportions.
“Physics teaches us not only about what happens at the edge of the universe, but about what we observe in our environment every day, including our technology,” says PhD candidate Muni Zhou.
Photo: Paul Rivenberg
When Muni Zhou looks into a clear night sky, she might be focusing less on the stars and more on what cannot be seen with the eye. The MIT graduate student, now in her fourth year at the P…

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