GRB 060614

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title: "GRB 060614" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["astronomical-objects-discovered-in-2006", "indus-(constellation)", "june-2006", "gamma-ray-bursts"] description: "June 2006 Gamma-ray burst in the constellation Indus" topic_path: "general/astronomical-objects-discovered-in-2006" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRB_060614" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary June 2006 Gamma-ray burst in the constellation Indus ::

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Field	Value
ra
dec
event_type	Gamma-ray burst
source	[PBF2006d] Host Galaxy
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| ra = | dec = | event_type = Gamma-ray burst | source = [PBF2006d] Host Galaxy GRB 060614 was a gamma-ray burst detected by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory on June 14, 2006, with peculiar properties. It challenged a previously held scientific consensus on gamma-ray burst progenitors and black holes.

Prior to this detection, it was believed that a long gamma-ray burst, like GRB 060614, was probably caused by gravitational collapse of a large star into a black hole, and would be accompanied by detectable supernova, whilst short gamma-ray bursts were thought to be the merger of two neutron stars. However, the lack of any supernova and the vanishing spectral lags during GRB 060614 are typical of short GRBs, 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 December 2006, an article on the burst was published in the journal Nature, with the editors describing a hunt by scientists to define a new GRB classification system to account for this burst. GRB 060614 was subsequently classified as a "hybrid gamma-ray burst", defined as a long burst without accompanying supernova.

References

References

1. "Newfound diversity in gamma-ray bursts". UC Berkeley News.
2. "NASA Satellite Discovers New Kind of Black Hole Explosion".
3. "Hybrids in the Universe?".
4. (2006). "A new γ-ray burst classification scheme from GRB 060614". Nature.
5. (February 2008). "State of the Universe 2008 : new images, discoveries and events". Springer Science & Business Media.

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