Magnetic Star Can Cut A Companion Star in Half
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6FT4Y)
Researchers have modeled the dynamics of an equatorial explosion powered by a millisecond magnetar formed from the core collapse of a massive star. Magneto-centrifugally-driven, relativistic magnetar winds might be powerful enough to produce an ultra-relativistic blade (lamina") that successfully carves its way through the dense stellar interior of another star. They present high-resolution numerical special-relativistic ...