{
  "id": 12431247,
  "title": "A gamma-ray burst's engine stayed active for nearly a month, breaking the previous record",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/a-gamma-ray-bursts-engine-stayed-active-for-nearly-a-month-breaking",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-06T17:20:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-gamma-ray-stayed-month-previous.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Astronomers have observed the longest-lasting central engine activity ever recorded from a gamma-ray burst. The burst occurred at a redshift of 0.8577, and the activity lasted about 27 days in the burst's own rest frame—around 20 days longer than the previous record. The paper, posted to the arXiv preprint server on Sept. 18, explores different mechanisms that could be powering this puzzling…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}