A breakthrough simulation reveals how magnetars form and evolve, solving a key mystery about their magnetic origins. Magnetars are a rare type of neutron star with the strongest magnetic fields in the ...

The magnetic field of the Sun is generated by a dynamo effect caused by its convective and rotational movements. It will evolve when our star becomes a red giant in the distant future. The giant ...

Recently, I have contributed to clarifying the long-standing question of the suppression of the dynamo effect in generating large-scale fields. I am also responsible for the maintenance of the Pencil ...

‘‘Dynamo action enables a conducting fluid, such as a plasma, with sufficiently complex motions, to amplify and maintain its own magnetic fields against the diffusive effects, which weaken them. This ...