{"id":223825,"date":"2025-10-23T04:22:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/exploring-how-dark-matter-alters-electron-capture-supernovae-and-the-birth-of-neutron-stars"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:22:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:22:03","slug":"exploring-how-dark-matter-alters-electron-capture-supernovae-and-the-birth-of-neutron-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/exploring-how-dark-matter-alters-electron-capture-supernovae-and-the-birth-of-neutron-stars","title":{"rendered":"Exploring how dark matter alters electron-capture supernovae and the birth of neutron stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exploring-how-dark-matter-alters-electron-capture-supernovae-and-the-birth-of-neutron-stars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electron-capture supernovae (ECSNe) are stellar explosions that occur in stars with initial masses around 8\u201310 times that of the sun. These stars develop oxygen-neon-magnesium cores, which become unstable when electrons are captured by neon and magnesium nuclei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electron-capture supernovae (ECSNe) are stellar explosions that occur in stars with initial masses around 8\u201310 times that of the sun. These stars develop oxygen-neon-magnesium cores, which become unstable when electrons are captured by neon and magnesium nuclei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223825","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}