December 20, 2006

A New Kind of Black Hole!

A hybrid gamma-ray burst was been detected by Swift, one of NASA's satellites, on June 14. Scientists think that this explosion has created a black hole, but was not accompanied by a supernova. It is called GRB 060614 and is located in the constellation Indus, 1.6 billion light years away.

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