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Artist’s impression of PSR J1745-2900, a pulsar with a very high magnetic field (“magnetar”) in direct vicinity of the central source of our Galaxy, a supermassive black hole of approximately 4 million times the mass of our sun. Measurements of the pulsar imply that a strong magnetic field exists in the vicinity around the black hole.
Source: MPIfR/Ralph Eatough
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