Precocious galaxy's magnetic field is bizarrely strong.

Who does this newbie galaxy think it is? I'd like to see how magnetic it thinks it is a billion years from now. From New Scientist:

A young galaxy has been found with a magnetic field that is 10 times stronger than the Milky Way's. The find could challenge the prevailing idea of how galaxies 'spin up' their own fields.

Large galaxies are spanned by fairly strong magnetic fields. Astrophysicists think these fields are slowly built up from smaller 'seed fields' that surround the charged particles blasted out by supernovae. Over billions of years, the galaxies' slow spin whips up these particles and acts like a dynamo to align and amplify the fields.

But the young galaxy DLA-3C286 seems to have found a shortcut to this slow process. "We never thought we'd find something this strong," says astronomer Arthur Wolfe of the University of California, San Diego.