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[–] tio_bira@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everything is a good conductor if the voltage is high enough

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

Yes, but at that point it's not really voltage anymore. It would be more like a rapidly expanding cloud of electrons ionizing anything it came across.

It could be more focused though a magnetar though, and a magnetar might conduct the ionised plasma nearby, or even through the galaxy in interactions with the local supermassive black hole.