"...their hybrid magnet attained a steady magnetic field of 45.22 tesla - more than a million times stronger than that of the Earth..." by Svetlana Ekimenko via sputniknews Since 1999, the record for a steady magnetic field of 45 tesla has been held by the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) in Florida in the US. Scientists in China claim to have broken a world record after their hybrid magnet attained a steady magnetic field of 45.22 tesla - more than a million times stronger than that of the Earth - on 12 August, South China Morning Post reported. The achievement was made at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Steady High Magnetic Field Laboratory (SHMFF), with the research team writing on their website: "[The Hefei facility] has become the highest steady-state magnetic field that can support scientific research in the world." The laboratory's statement also referred to the