Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in Search : for Search Go Ad-free Posted on June 30, 2022 June 30, 2022 by Andy Tomaswick The Case is Building That Colliding Neutron Stars Create Magnetars Magnetars are some of the most fascinating astronomical objects . One teaspoon of the stuff they are made out of would weigh almost one billion tons , and they have magnetic fields that are hundreds of millions of times more powerful than any magnetic that exists today on Earth . But we don’t know much about how they form . A new paper points to one possible source mergers of neutron . stars Neutron stars themselves are equally fascinating in their own right . In fact , magnetars are generally considered to be a specific