Originally Posted By: mich12
the eyewalls of sunspots have huge amounts of the circular electric currents (1,000,000,000,000 Amperes for middle size circular sunspots), so plasmas in eyewalls of sunspots will pinch and be in pinch state


  • The flux and circulation in pinch and sunspots are different
  • The currents in sunspot are spread over area larger then our planet, whereas in pinch are concentrated into whisker
  • The sunspots are coldest places on Sun
  • No signs of gamma ray activity were observed in sunspots