Snapshot from a simulation of two colliding stars. New research finds such collisions can form magnetic stars (blue stragglers) that evolve into magnetars — which are neutron stars with absurd magnetic fields that reach 5 quadrillion (1 quadrillion = 1,000 billions) times the strength of Earth's.

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