This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to ...

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New research suggests that the largest magnetic fields in the universe originated through some exotic mechanism that absolutely soaked the early cosmos.

As this material swirls and rotates, it generates electric currents, which then create and strengthen magnetic fields. The process is much like how Earth' s magnetic field forms in its spinning ...