Stars can be cut in half using “relativistic blades” – these are super-powerful plasma emissions formed by extremely strong magnetic fields, an unpublished study reads. These “blades” cutting stars can explain some of the brightest explosions in the universe.
The authors of the study from the Center for Cosmology and Physics at New York University presented their results in an article published in September on a preliminary database arxiv . The article has not yet passed the review.
Scientists were looking for the origin of certain types of gamma-implains (GRBS). GRBS is one of the most powerful explosions in the sky, but they usually occur so far that we see them only as a short, but intense excess of gamma radiation.
Most astrophysicists believe that either black holes or magnetars can be involved in the energy of the energy necessary for the GRB, especially when they participate in something forced, for example, tearing the star.
In a new study, the authors suggest that these long GRBS can occur at the death of massive stars. The core of the star is compressed, forming a neutron star – a ball consisting of ultra-flat neutrons, surrounded by heavy layers of hydrogen and helium.
This neutron star can acquire an extremely strong magnetic field thanks to rapid compression and rotation, turning into a magnet – an object with the most powerful magnetic fields in the universe.
The newborn Magnitar is surrounded by chaos. His own gravitational attraction attracts the remaining atmosphere of the parent star to him, but intensive radiation and magnetic fields shake this plasma.
The authors of the new study came to the conclusion that the magnetic fields of the magnetar can also radiate intense gusts of radiation along the magnetar equator. Under the influence of extreme centrifugal forces of the rotating star, these radiation rays form a blade that moves through the star at almost the speed of light, and carries more energy in itself than the explosion of supernova.