Scientists have just found the place in the universe with the strongest magnetic field.
There have been no direct measurements of the strongest magnetic field in the universe until now, thanks to a team led by the Chinese Insight-HXMT spacecraft.
The greatest magnetic fields in the universe are produced by neutron stars, a fact well-known across the scientific community. Only by searching for cyclon resonance scattering signatures can one reliably and directly quantify these magnetic fields close to a neutron star's surface (CRSF). The neutron star X-ray binary Swift J0243.6+6124 has a cyclotron absorption line with an energy of 146 keV, which correlates to a surface magnetic field of over 1.6 billion Tesla, according to the Insight-HXMT team.
Astrophysical Journal Letters reported the findings last month. Together with the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at th...