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Churning spacetime and destroyed stars help reveal how fast supermassive black holes spin
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn the background, a vibrant pink accretion disk is seen swirling around a black hole's singularity....
Supermassive Black Hole’s Spin Measured For The First Time With Destroyed Star
IFLScience· 3 days agoTidal disruption events (TDEs) are bright releases of energy caused by a supermassive black hole having a snack. Part of the snack is thrown out, but the rest of the stellar plasma forms a hot ...
Groundbreaking Measurement Reveals a Black Hole Spinning at a Quarter the Speed of Light
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin...
Using wobbling stellar material, astronomers measure the spin of a supermassive black hole for the...
Science Daily· 3 days agoAs the star is disrupted by the black hole's immense tidal forces, half of the star is blown away, while the other half is flung around the black hole, generating an intensely hot accretion ...
Astronomers measure a supermassive black hole’s spin
Astronomy Magazine· 3 days agoThis pioneering technique makes use of tidal disruption events (TDEs), which occur when a star passes too close to a black hole and is torn apart as a...
Council Post: Five Reasons To Consider An M&A, Even In An Uncertain Economy
Forbes· 1 day agoMergers and acquisitions are sometimes seen as risky moves during volatile or uncertain economic...
Right again, Einstein! Scientists find where matter 'waterfalls' into black holes
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoEinstein was right! Scientists found the first-ever evidence of "plunging regions" of spacetime...
We’ve Finally Seen Matter Plunge into a Black Hole
Scientific American· 2 days agoBlack holes stretch the fabric of spacetime to its extreme—and the closer you get to one, the more warped things get. “You can be really very close to a...
X-Ray Observations Validate Einstein's Theory
Gadgets 360· 4 days agoBack in 1915, Einstein's theory of relativity suggested that as matter approaches a black hole, its gravitational pull would compel it to veer off its...
Lowry and the Sea: The ‘matchstick men’ artist revealed in a whole new light
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoOther than Banksy, it’s hard to name a British artist who’s either more widely popular or more...