| One teaspoon of Magnetar weighs the same as the entire population of the planet. |
| The first magnetar candidates were a family of rare and peculiar galactic sources of gamma and X-rays called soft gamma repeaters. |
| That extra spin in the progenitor star might have been enough to give the neutron star more magnetic power, making it a magnetar. |
| One magnetar is only about a light-year from the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. |
| The new study finds that the supernovae are likely powered by the creation of a magnetar, an extraordinarily magnetized neutron star spinning hundreds of times per second. |
| As it spins, the magnetar emits regular X-ray and radio pulses. |
