{"id":184192,"date":"2024-03-02T05:24:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T11:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-just-created-the-strongest-magnetic-force-in-the-universe"},"modified":"2024-03-02T05:24:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T11:24:26","slug":"scientists-just-created-the-strongest-magnetic-force-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-just-created-the-strongest-magnetic-force-in-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Scientists just created the strongest magnetic force in the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-created-the-strongest-magnetic-force-in-the-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may never have heard of magnetars, but they are, in a nutshell an exotic type of neutron star whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/topic\/magnetic-field\" target=\"_blank\">magnetic field<\/a> is around a trillion times stronger than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/topic\/earth\" target=\"_blank\">Earth<\/a>\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>To illustrate their strength, if you were to get any closer to a magnetar than about 1,000km (600 miles) away, your body would be totally destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Its unimaginably powerful field would tear electrons away from your atoms, converting you into a cloud of monatomic ions \u2013 single atoms without electrons\u2013 as <em><a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/space\/what-is-a-magnetar\/\" target=\"_blank\">EarthSky<\/a><\/em>notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may never have heard of magnetars, but they are, in a nutshell an exotic type of neutron star whose magnetic field is around a trillion times stronger than the Earth\u2019s. To illustrate their strength, if you were to get any closer to a magnetar than about 1,000km (600 miles) away, your body would be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}