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"Our current theoretical understanding of magnetic field generation in the Sun relies on these motions being of a certain magnitude," explained Shravan Hanasoge, an associate research scholar in geosciences at Princeton University and a visiting scholar at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. "These convective motions are currently believed to prop up large-scale circulations in the outer third of the Sun that generate magnetic fields."
I love it when our observations prove our mathematical model to be wrong. It is just as exciting when our observations prove our mathematical models to be right. Both help us understand the nature of the universe a little bit better.