Magnetar Image Makes for a Lovely Torus

 I know this blog has many fans of the torus shape. Here's a good-looking magnetar torus and a link to the article that accompanied it from Science News. The article concerns a new theory that those mysterious fast radio bursts and high-energy neutrinos are both thrown off by magnetars--

What? You didn't know that the universe is full of toruses? Read all about it by clicking on this Simple Explanation article.

Magnetars, highly magnetized stellar corpses like the one illustrated here, could be the source of two different cosmic enigmas: fast radio bursts and high-energy neutrinos, a new study suggests.

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