... 50 Weirdest Objects in the Cosmos . / . Weird Object: Magnetar SGR 1806-20 . No. 17: Powerful Enough to Affect the Universe . ... RELATED TOPICS: WEIRDEST OBJECTS | MAGNETARS . YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE. ...
... A magnetar called SGR 0418+5729 (SGR 0418) has been shown to have the lowest surface ... Magnetars have surface magnetic fields that are usually ten to a thousand times ...
... Until very recently, all indications were that this magnetar had one of the weakest surface magnetic fields known; at 6 x 10^12 Gauss, it was roughly a hundred times lower than for typical magnetars, said Andrea Tiengo of the University Institute of ...
... The magnetar 1E 2259+586 shines a brilliant blue-white in this false-color X-ray image of the CTB 109 supernova remnant, which ... CTB 109 is only one of three supernova remnants in our galaxy known to harbor a magnetar. ...
... It appears to be a magnetar with bursts in the visible part of the spectrum, in contrast to the X-ray and gamma flashes that are considered to be characteristic for magnetars. ...
... gamma-ray burst driven by a rapidly spinning neutron star with a strong magnetic field an exotic object known as a magnetar ... by radioactive decay, as expected, but was instead powered by the decaying super-strong magnetic fields around a magnetar ...