{"id":158369,"date":"2022-05-08T18:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T18:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/33102140"},"modified":"2022-05-08T18:59:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T18:59:36","slug":"33102140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/33102140","title":{"rendered":"The largest natural diamond in the Universe is trillions of carats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White dwarfsCredit: PL&#8217;s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope: Public Domain ImageThe largest diamond in the universe is not located on the planet Earth. Instead, it is a white dwarf star called V886 Centauri or BPM 37093. A white dwarf star is considered to be a &#8220;dead&#8221; or extinct star. V886 Centauri is literally a diamond floating in space. The diamond is the core of the white dwarf star and is estimated to be 10 billion trillion trillion carats. V886 Centauri is 50 light-years away from the Earth and is located in the constellation Centaurus. It is a radiant shining star and it undergoes constant pulsations. Scientists measured the pulsations to determine the composition of the star&#8217;s interior. The star is mostly composed of the elements carbon and oxygen but scientists studying the interior of the star discovered that it contains carbon that has solidified to become a massive diamond. The diamond formation occurs as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White dwarfsCredit: PL&#8217;s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope: Public Domain Image. The largest diamond in the universe is not located on the planet Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}