Magnetars: mega-magnetic ... The flare detected by INTEGRAL is the first firm confirmation of a magnetar flare outside of the Milky Way. M82 is a bright galaxy where star formation takes place.

While observing the sky, ESA's INTEGRAL satellite detected a burst of gamma rays ... concluded that it was an extragalactic eruption from a magnetar, a young neutron star with an exceptionally strong ...

Scientists have now detected the most distant-known instance of one of these eruptions ... stars is a magnetic field 1,000 to 10,000 times stronger than an ordinary neutron star's magnetism ...

A group of researchers has identified and characterized for the first time in a complete way a powerful eruption in the atmosphere of the active star HR ... that the magnetic field in the active ...

An international team, including researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), realised that the burst must have been an extra-galactic flare from a magnetar, a young neutron star with an ...

Artist's impression of a magnetar. Magnetars are the cosmic objects with the strongest magnetic fields ever measured in the Universe.