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ScienceDaily: Astronomy News

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News


Amplification of cosmic magnetic fields replicated

Posted: 01 Jun 2014 12:06 PM PDT

Astrophysicists have established that cosmic turbulence could have amplified magnetic fields to the strengths observed in interstellar space. "Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the universe," said one of the researchers. "We're pretty sure that the fields didn't exist at the beginning, at the Big Bang. So there's this fundamental question: how did magnetic fields arise?"

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