How a star with an extreme magnetic field could prove space is not empty The HinduEmpty space isn't truly empty, according to quantum physics — and a magnetar with a magnetic field hundreds of trillions of times stronger than Earth's has now produced the strongest evidence yet, polarizing X-rays in a pattern researchers struggled to explai Space DailyScientists may have finally caught “empty” space changing light Science DailyScientists May Have Proved a Century-Old Theory That the Vacuum of Space Isn’t Really Empty Popular MechanicsPhysicists 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
How a star with an extreme magnetic field could prove space is not empty The HinduEmpty space isn't truly empty, according to quantum physics — and a magnetar with a magnetic field hundreds of trillions of times stronger than Earth's has now produced the strongest evidence yet, polarizing X-rays in a pattern researchers struggled to explai Space DailyScientists may have finally caught “empty” space changing light Science DailyScientists May Have Proved a Century-Old Theory That the Vacuum of Space Isn’t Really Empty Popular MechanicsPhysicists 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
