NASA Satellite Discovers New Kind of Black Hole Explosion
U.S. Newswire, December, 2006
To: SCIENCE EDITORS
Contact: Dwayne Brown, Headquarters, Washington, 1-202-358-1726, or Susan Hendrix, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., 1- 301-286-7745, both of NASA
GREENBELT, Md., Dec. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scientists using NASAdata are studying a newly recognized type of cosmic explosion called a hybridgamma-ray burst. As with other gamma-ray bursts, this hybrid blast is likelysignaling the birth of a new black hole.
It is unclear, however, what kind of object or objects exploded or mergedto create the new black hole. The hybrid burst exhibits properties of the twoknown classes of gamma-ray bursts yet possesses features that remainunexplained.
NASA's Swift first discovered the burst on June 14. Since the Swiftfinding, more than a...
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