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The genealogy of magnetic fields

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Radio observations from the Low Frequency Radio Array suggest that magnetic fields in high-redshift clusters are of similar strength as their local counterparts. This finding implies that magnetic fields evolve differently than predicted by cosmological simulations.

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Fig. 1: Composite images of two examples of radio halos in the nearby galaxy clusters Abell 520 and Abell 2744.

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