The strongest magnetic field in the universe may be right here on Earth.

This magnetic field is 10,000 times stronger than the strongest neutron star we know of, and 10 million million times stronger than a typical refrigerator magnet can produce.

There are places in the universe where matter is so severely deformed that magnetism develops into an incredibly strong force, possibly reaching 100 trillion gauss (where gauss is a unit of measurement for the strength of a magnetic field).

They typically reside in the gravitationally compressed cores of highly active neutron stars. However, there are regions on Earth that possess even more power than these monstrous objects.

There are areas on Earth that possess powers even beyond those of exotic objects. (Photo: Physx).

An analysis of particle interactions at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory found traces of extremely strong magnetic fields on the material's spray after they interacted.

They are known to create this spray by colliding the nuclei of many heavy ions, consisting of quarks and gluons.

By measuring the debris released by the off-center collision, the physicists found that the force was so strong that it could generate more gauss than a pulsating neutron star.

"The moving positive charges generate a very strong magnetic field, up to approximately 1018 gauss ," said Gang Wang, a representative of the research team. "This is probably the strongest magnetic field in our universe."

To put that number into perspective, that's 10,000 times larger than the magnetic field of the strongest known neutron star, and 10 million million times larger than the 100 gauss that a typical refrigerator magnet can produce.

However, its lifetime is extremely short . While magnets can create magnetic vortices that last tens of thousands of years, particle-induced magnetic bursts will only last for 10 millionths of a trillionth of a second.

Because of this, its presence can only be sensed by the charged quarks released after the collision.

According to experts, this experiment provides a deeper understanding of the forces acting deep inside an atom, as well as the distribution of particles within matter.