Strange Magnetar Moving Across the Milky Way Currently Doesn't Make Sense
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about as strange magnetar SGR 0501+4516 whose origin is not entirely clear
Links:
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/04/aa53479-24/aa53479-24.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07285-4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGR_0501+4516
0:00 Magnetars and why they're weird
2:00 Questions we can't answer yet and connection to FRBs
2:55 Explosions from 12 million light years away
4:50 Are all these mysteries from magnetars?
5:10 Mystery of their formation and the new study
7:05 Where did this come from??
8:00 Unusual formation proposition
9:50 What this could explain and why this matters
#magnetar #neutronstar #milkyway
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Credit:
Carl Knox, OzGrav/Swinburne University of Technology
CSIRO
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