Stars form when vast clouds of cold gas in space collapse under their own gravity. But not all gas collapses, and not all clouds form stars equally efficiently. A longstanding puzzle in astrophysics is what controls this process—and a leading suspect has been the role of magnetic fields, which ...
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-06-astronomers-magnetic-skeleton-funneling-gas.html)