{"id":158657,"date":"2023-02-21T12:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T18:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/surprise-colliding-neutron-stars-create-perfectly-spherical-kilonova-explosions"},"modified":"2023-02-21T12:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T18:24:02","slug":"surprise-colliding-neutron-stars-create-perfectly-spherical-kilonova-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/surprise-colliding-neutron-stars-create-perfectly-spherical-kilonova-explosions","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! Colliding neutron stars create perfectly spherical \u2018kilonova\u2019 explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surprise-colliding-neutron-stars-create-perfectly-spherical-kilonova-explosions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kilonova explosions created when neutron stars collide and merge are perfectly spherical, not flattened discs as previously expected, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kilonova explosions created when neutron stars collide and merge are perfectly spherical, not flattened discs as previously expected, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}