While we can find electric monopoles in the form of charged particles, we have never observed magnetic monopoles. Instead, magnets exist only in the form of dipoles with a north and a south end. ... But one of these equations – Gauss's law for magnetism – states that there are no magnetic monopoles.

Can a monopole exist?

As yet there is no evidence for the existence of magnetic monopoles, but they are interesting theoretically. In 1931 the English physicist P.A.M. Dirac proposed that the existence of even a single magnetic monopole in the universe would explain why electric charge comes only in multiples of the electron charge.

Could a magnetic monopole exist?

A magnetic monopole would have a net "magnetic charge". ... Magnetism in bar magnets and electromagnets is not caused by magnetic monopoles, and indeed, there is no known experimental or observational evidence that magnetic monopoles exist.