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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...
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 ...
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 ...
Churning spacetime and destroyed stars help reveal how fast supermassive black holes spin
SPACE.com· 3 days agoThe "wobbling" remains of a star that suffered a grisly death at the maw of a supermassive black ...
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...
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....
Black holes are mysterious, but deceptively simple
Arizona Daily Sun· 4 days agoResearch from the 1970s suggests that you can comprehensively describe a black hole using only three physical attributes – their mass, charge and spin.
Scientists clocked a black hole spinning at a quarter of light speed
Quartz· 2 days agoA team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin...
Supermassive black hole spin measured for the first time
Cosmos· 2 days agoFor the first time, astronomers have been able to determine how fast a black hole is spinning. The...
Study proves black holes have a ‘plunging region,’ just as Einstein predicted
AccuWeather· 5 days agoNASA’s space-based NuSTAR telescope, seen here in an artist’s concept, was used for the first time...