A Record-Breaking X-Ray Flash May Reveal the Birth of a Magnetar
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A record-breaking X-ray flash may reveal the birth of a magnetar
Astronomers have found strong evidence that some mysterious, minutes-long X-ray flashes are produced when two neutron stars collide and create a magnetar. One record-setting event glowed in X-rays for nearly 10 minutes, potentially opening a new way to find these extreme cosmic mergers.
A gamma flash took only 0.4 seconds, but after that almost ten minutes X-ray radiation followed. Is a newly created magnetar behind it? The post After a 0.4-second flash, the space lit up for 10 minutes further appeared first on ingenieur.de - Jobbörse und Nachrichtenportal für Ingenieure.
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