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Loading contentThe most powerful magnetic fields known in the Universe — around a hundred trillion to a quadrillion gauss — carried by magnetars, a class of young neutron star. The decay of this colossal field powers their X-ray and gamma-ray flares, including the giant flares bright enough to be detected across the Galaxy and beyond.
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