Physicists predicted in 1936 that a powerful magnetic field could turn empty space into a kind of prism — and on August 5, 2026, observations of a magnetar with a field more than a trillion times Earth’s produced the strongest evidence yet that they were right. - Space Daily
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IXPE and radio polarimetry of magnetar 1E 1547.0−5408 provide the strongest evidence yet for vacuum birefringence, while the conclusion still depends on atmosphere and geometry models.
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