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Posted on 06/11/02

Star packs mighty magnetic punch, research shows

A compact reincarnated star packs the universe's most powerful magnet, capable of wiping out computer disks, making credit and debit cards unusable and sucking loose change into its vortex from as far away as the moon, according to new research by a Canadian scientist and her international colleagues.

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