GRB 060614

GRB 060614

Other designations	GRB 060614
Event type	gamma-ray burst
Detection
Date	14 June 2006
Duration	102±1 second
Instrument	Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
Location
Constellation	Indus
Right ascension	21^h 23^m 27.0^s
Declination	−53° 02′ 02″
Distance	1.6 × 10^9 light years
Redshift	0.125±0.001
Source	[PBF2006d] Host Galaxy
Energetics
See also
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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. The characteristics of the burst perfectly align with that of white holes.

As of December 2006, more than a dozen telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope and large ground-based observatories, have studied the burst.

References

External links

• NASA Satellite Discovers New Kind of Black Hole Explosion
• GRB 060614 entry at SIMBAD

Coordinates: 21^h 23^m 27.0^s, −53° 02′ 02″