A new source of flares in stellar "embryos" discovered## Ignore this text: 616936737332

Scientists from the Ural Federal University (UrFU), together with Chinese and Italian astrophysicist colleagues, have discovered a new source of flares in the vicinity of a supermassive protostar, also called a stellar "embryo." They have studied for the first time the process of rearrangement of force lines in large magnetic fields, reports "Izvestia."

It is specified that the research was conducted while observing the object G36.11+0.55, located more than four thousand light-years from Earth.

"Scientists recorded an unusual microwave radiation flare (maser) that lasted 90 days and released energy of about 10³⁹ ergs," – said Sergey Khaibrakhmanov, a researcher at the Astrochemical Research Laboratory of the Ural University.

He explained that the energy release during this flare is approximately one million times greater than that of an average flare on the Sun, or about 170 billion times more than the amount of energy that humanity consumes in a year. The scientist added that parallel to this observation, it was discovered that changes in maser brightness are synchronous with fluctuations in the magnetic field.

The astrophysicist noted that such events are associated with the accretion process. This is a phenomenon in which a protostar increases its body mass due to the fall of substances from the surrounding environment onto it. But the brightness of the flare, despite its power, turned out to be less than in other similar cases. In this regard, scientists suggested a different physics of the phenomenon. As a conclusion, Ural astrophysicists put forward a hypothesis that in G36 there was an episode of increased accretion. And the reason for the release of such a large amount of energy was that the clump of matter that fell on the "embryo," or protostar, gave it part of its magnetic field.

The UrFU emphasized that this discovery indicates the participation of magnetic fields in the process of star formation, as they are giant repositories of energy in space.