Study reveals that high-energy cosmic rays are born in magnetic fields during neutron star mergers, a prelude to black holes.

While observing the sky, ESA's INTEGRAL satellite detected a burst of gamma rays ... concluded that it was an extragalactic eruption from a magnetar, a young neutron star with an exceptionally strong ...

Credit: ESA An international team, with the assistance of ESA satellites, and including researchers from UNIGE, has detected a massive eruption emanating from a magnetar, an extremely magnetic neutron ...

Scientists have now detected the most distant-known instance of one of these eruptions ... stars is a magnetic field 1,000 to 10,000 times stronger than an ordinary neutron star's magnetism ...

Magnetars: mega-magnetic stars ... do. The flare detected by INTEGRAL is the first firm confirmation of a magnetar flare outside of the Milky Way. M82 is a bright galaxy where star formation takes ...

An artist’s impression of a type of neutron star called a magnetar. Magnetars are the cosmic objects with the strongest magnetic ... detected the most distant-known instance of one of these ...

Scientists have now detected the most distant-known instance of one of these eruptions ... apart from other neutron stars is a magnetic field 1,000 to 10,000 times stronger than an ordinary neutron ...

Huge energetic flare from magnetic neutron star detected Magnetars ... Once in a while, they produce enormous eruptions of gamma rays in the strongest nondestructive release of energy known in the ...

Once in a while, they produce enormous eruptions of gamma rays in the strongest nondestructive release of energy known in the cosmos. Scientists have now detected ... is a magnetic field 1,000 to ...

Thanks to ESA satellites, an international team including UNIGE researchers has detected a giant eruption coming from a magnetar, an extremely magnetic neutron star. Artist's impression of a magnetar.