Giant magnetic ropes seen in Whale Galaxy’s halo

Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope, a team of astronomers has captured for the first time an image of large-scale, coherent, magnetic fields in the halo of a faraway spiral galaxy, confirming theoretical modeling of how galaxies generate magnetic fields and potentially increasing knowledge of how galaxies form and evolve.

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https://phys.org/news/2019-12-giant-magnetic-ropes-whale-galaxy.html