Magnetars are the super-dense remnants of supernova explosions. They are the strongest magnets known in the Universe—millions of times more powerful than the strongest magnets on Earth. A team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope now believe they’ve found the partner star of a magnetar for the first time. This discovery helps to explain how magnetars form and why this particular star didn’t collapse into a black hole as astronomers would expect.
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