As this Magnetar spirals in some of the magnetic fields extending out from it should begin to break the speed of light. Will that put a brake on the whole thing and make it lose momentum or do those fields continue to surround it in their normal configuration and ignore their relative speed?

Magnetar status: theoretical object;
Black hole status: theroretical object:
Black matter status: ocult symbol;
Black energy status: ocult symbol:
Modern astrophysics: status politicaly correct mithology;

Something with 4 million times the mass of the sun, plus the combined gravitational effects of that dense region of the galaxy doesn't cause meaningful tidal effects on the neutron star?
I must just not be able to fathom how dense a neutron star really is, but still seems weird to me.

Shut the hell up Viko, you are the absolute worst commentator I've seen

@Viko_mx, the situation It's not as you are trying to represent it. Actually It's more like - we have more and more proofs about some new areas of science, but till we don't approve them by the scientific method, we won't call them facts. In opposite, the religion dogma is - it's a fact because it's written in one of the some thousands interpretations of something which somebody might have said some thousands years ago. So, the religious beliefs are not even considering as a "theoretical object".

Magnetar status: theoretical object;
Black hole status: theroretical object:
Black matter status: ocult symbol;
Black energy status: ocult symbol:
Modern astrophysics: status politicaly correct mithology;

All hail Satan!

YES!!! HAIL SATAN!!!

Jeffhans1: The magnetic fields can exceed light speed, just as a rotating searchlight beam can, if one measures the rotational speed at a great enough distance. There's no relativity violation because the movement doesn't involve mass, or convey information.

If there are particles trapped in the fields, they will also be accelerated, and as they approach the speed of light, they will emit radiation. The energy for this radiation comes from the magnetic field, and thus from the central object, and does slow the rotation.

References please, regarding exceeding light speed. I believe your analogy is that of an optical illusion, not reality.

I don't get how people say "Magnetar status: theoretical object;" when scientists have been studying this one in particular for almost two years now. There's even a picture of the magnetar at the top of this web page!!