What is “Kilonova”?
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A kilonova is a bright blast of electromagnetic radiation that happens when two neutron stars or a neutron star and a stellar-mass black hole collide and merge.
According to scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a kilonova—an explosion caused by two colliding neutron stars—located within 35 light years of Earth could bathe the planet in cosmic rays and exterminate life for thousands of years.