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Any charged particle has an electric field surrounding it. If it oscillates, the electric field will continuously change, resulting in the production of a magnetic field, which is in phase with the electric field. But these two fields are perpendicular to each other. These two "oscillating fields" come together to form electromagnetic waves.

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