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Magnetic Fields Around an Ultraluminous X-ray Source (Illustration)
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Two rivers of hot gas are siphoned onto the surface of a neutron star (the collapsed remains of a dead star) in this illustration. Neutron stars pack roughly the mass of our Sun into an area about 10 miles (6 kilometers) across. The gravity at the neutron star's surface is about 100 trillion times stronger than the gravitational pull on Earth's surface.
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Credit lineMagnetic Fields Around an Ultraluminous X-ray Source (Illustration). NASA/JPL, 2023-04-06. Public domain. ID: PIA25781.
