The source of a huge burst of a huge burst of radiation from deep space that hit Earth in 2023 likely was one of the rarest and most bizarre objects in the universe: a magnetar.
. Working as fast as possible, they turned their instruments toward the point in deep space the gamma rays had come from to see if they could find its source. And that’s when things started to get very strange indeed.
Magnetars, which like other neutron stars are birthed from the collapse of much more giant stars, have extremely powerful magnetic fields—thousands of times stronger than those found on other neutron stars—for reasons that still mystify astronomers. Yet for the first time, Merenghetti and his colleagues have managed to do just that. Their hypothesis—a magnetar—seems to have borne fruit and given them a scientific first., Mereghetti and his team lay out their case that the eruption detected in November, 2023 was the result of a giant flare from a magnetar located in the M82 galaxy, which is 12,000 light-years away.
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