Not exact matches
This discovery allowed the astronomers to reconstruct the stellar
life story that permitted the
magnetar to form, in place
of the expected black hole [3].
They hope to localize more bursts to see whether they usually
live in dwarf irregular galaxies, and whether they all appear alongside steady radio sources, both
of which would support the newborn -
magnetar theory.
They found it by observing a long - sought, short -
lived afterglow
of subatomic particles ejected from a
magnetar — a neutron star with a magnetic field billions
of times stronger than any on Earth and 100 times stronger than any other previously known in the Universe.