{"id":3182,"date":"2023-02-10T04:28:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T22:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:19:46","slug":"what-is-kilonova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-kilonova\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Kilonova?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why in news?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The newly found star system has been labelled CPD-29 2176 and is located about 11,400 light-years from the earth.<\/li>\n<li>CPD-29 2176 is currently a neutron star and a star orbiting each other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Kilonova?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A kilonova is a cosmic event that occurs when <strong>a neutron star smashes into another<\/strong> neutron star or a black hole.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>releases heavy metal<\/strong>s like gold, silver, and selenium into outer space at tremendous velocities, as well as radiation.<\/li>\n<li>A kilonova <strong>radiation <\/strong>also accompanies a <strong>gamma-ray burst<\/strong>, one of the most energetic cosmic events ever known.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is a Neutron star?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The stars which are formed when a massive star runs out of fuel and collapses are called neutron stars<\/li>\n<li>The very central region of the star \u2013 the core \u2013 collapses, crushing together every proton and electron into a neutron.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a black hole?<\/h3>\n<p>A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. Gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/what-is-a-kilonova\/article66484305.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Science for All | What is a kilonova?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A kilonova is a cosmic event that occurs when a neutron star smashes into another neutron star or a black hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}