The Milky Way's halo is filled with ‘magnetic doughnuts' as wide as 100,000 light years
All About Space UK|Issue 157
The outer halo of the Milky Way is filled with magnetic fields that take the shape of vast doughnuts with diameters ranging from 12,000 to 100,000 light years, with the heart of our galaxy at their centre.
Robert Lea
The Milky Way's halo is filled with ‘magnetic doughnuts' as wide as 100,000 light years

These doughnut or ‘toroid’ shaped magnetic fields of the Milky Way are responsible for constraining the physical processes surrounding gas and dust that exist between stars, known as the interstellar medium, and also govern the propagation of charged particles called cosmic rays that travel through the universe at near-light speeds. The discovery could help better understand the origin and evolution of magnetic fields in the cosmos, a mystery that has baffled astronomers for decades.

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