Deep in the heart of our galaxy lies one of the most chaotic and mysterious regions in space. Now, scientists have created the first detailed map of magnetic fields in this turbulent zone, providing ...
A new radio survey reveals that the Milky Way’s magnetic field is intricate, widespread, and deeply connected to how the galaxy is organized.
In 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell made a discovery that revolutionized the field of astronomy. She detected the radio signals emitted by certain dying... How Jocelyn Bell once made a discovery that changed ...
Might the universe’s most extreme black holes owe their existence to magnetism? In 2023, gravitational wave detectors LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA recorded an event that defied astrophysical logic: GW231123 ...
Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Italian astronomers have observed five blue straggler stars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Their results show that one of these stars has a white dwarf ...
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After decades of mystery, scientists have finally mapped the Milky Way’s magnetic field
For decades, scientists have suspected the presence of a magnetic field that holds the Milky Way together, but only now has the detailed structure of this invisible force come into focus. A new study ...
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