[ExI] The strongest magnetic field ever detected

John Clark johnkclark at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 12:28:05 UTC 2020


The strongest magnetic field ever detected was just found by a Chinese
astronomical X-ray orbital telescope, it is in a Pulsar called GRO
J1008-57. The Pulsar has a magnetic field of about one billion Tesla. By
comparison a hospital MRI machine has a field of about 2 Tesla, and the
strongest magnetic field humans have ever produced was 45.5 Tesla at the
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Tallahassee Florida in 1999; it
took 30 MW of power to run and nobody has been able to beat that 35 ton
magnet's record since then.

Strongest magnetic field in universe directly detected by X-ray space
observatory
<https://phys.org/news/2020-09-strongest-magnetic-field-universe-x-ray.html>

John K Clark
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