{"id":228736,"date":"2026-01-10T21:07:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-double-cosmic-explosion-could-be-the-first-known-superkilonova"},"modified":"2026-01-10T21:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:07:38","slug":"a-double-cosmic-explosion-could-be-the-first-known-superkilonova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-double-cosmic-explosion-could-be-the-first-known-superkilonova","title":{"rendered":"A double cosmic explosion could be the first known \u2018superkilonova\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-double-cosmic-explosion-could-be-the-first-known-superkilonova.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The blast may have been a kilonova \u2014 a type of neutron star merger \u2014 in the wake of a more traditional supernova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blast may have been a kilonova \u2014 a type of neutron star merger \u2014 in the wake of a more traditional supernova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228736","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}