Other designations GRB 060614 Date 14 June 2006 Constellation Indus | Event type Gamma-ray burst Duration 102±1 second | |
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Instrument Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission | ||
GRB 060614 was a remarkable gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected by the Swift satellite on June 14, 2006 with puzzling properties, which challenge current progenitor models.
In particular, the lack of any bright supernova (SN) down to very strict limits and the vanishing spectral lags during the whole burst are typical of short GRBs, strikingly at odds with the long (102s) duration of this event and its origin in a galaxy 1.6 billion light years away in the constellation Indus.
In 2011, it was hypothesised that the burst was a white hole appearing for 102 seconds.
As of December 2006, more than a dozen telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope and large ground-based observatories, have studied the burst.
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