The key difference is FLI analyzes the entire galaxy field while 2+3-point inference analyzes only the 2+3-point summaries of the (same) galaxy field. Credit: MPA.

The orientation of the magnetic field in the distant 9io9 galaxy, seen here when the universe was only 20 percent of its current age and the furthest ever detection of a galaxy’s magnetic field.

The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral ...

The field belonged to a galaxy called 9io9, which we see as it was about 11 billion years ago – about 2.5 billion years after the universe was created in the Big Bang. The discovery was made by ...

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly sure where these magnetic fields came from. But new research suggests they ...

Astronomers have detected the magnetic field of a galaxy so far away that its light has taken more than 11 billion years to reach us: we see it as it was when the Universe was just 2.5 billion ...