[Interview+] How Magnetars Are Born

Universe Today Podcast · Jan 28, 2026 · 45m

Magnetars are a special sauce of neutron stars. They are extremely violent with crazy magnetic fields. But how are they created? Do kilonova neutron star collisions produce them? What do we really know about that? Finding out in this interview.Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Q3JGdARjzTABONUS PART STARTS AT 28:29🟣 Guest: Dr. Genevieve Schroeder https://astro.cornell.edu/genevieve-schroeder https://sites.northwestern.edu/genevieveschroeder/ https://bsky.app/profile/genevieveschroeder.bsky.social📜 No Sign of a Magnetar Remnant Following the Kilonova-Producing…