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Churning spacetime and destroyed stars help reveal how fast supermassive black holes spin
SPACE.com· 4 days agoThe "wobbling" remains of a star that suffered a grisly death at the maw of a supermassive black...
UF physicists join global collaboration to track gravitational waves in space
WTVT via Yahoo News· 3 days agoPhysicists at the University of Florida helped make striking new discoveries in space. Now they're part of a global collaboration to build a giant space antenna that could greatly expand our knowledge of the universe and how it came to be.
Supermassive Black Hole’s Spin Measured For The First Time With Destroyed Star
IFLScience· 4 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 ...
Astronomers Stumbled Upon A Rare Chance To Capture Just How Fast A Supermassive Black Hole Spins
Inverse· 4 days agoThere are behemoths that lurk at the center of almost all large galaxies in the known universe,...
Supermassive black hole spin measured for the first time
Cosmos· 3 days agoFor the first time, astronomers have been able to determine how fast a black hole is spinning. The...
Lai receives Brouwer Career Award in astronomy | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell News Service· 4 days agoDong Lai, Ph.D. ’94, the Benson Jay Simon ’59 MBA ’62 and Mary Ellen Simon MA ’63 Professor of...
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....
Using wobbling stellar material, astronomers measure the spin of a supermassive black hole for the...
Science Daily· 4 days agoThe method takes advantage of a black hole tidal disruption event -- a blazingly bright moment when a black hole exerts tides on a passing star and rips it to shreds. As the star is disrupted ...
The fleeting, beating heart of the Snake - Nature Astronomy
Nature· 4 days agoE. Lower et al., preprint at https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2404.09098; 2024) have tentatively identified that source as a millisecond pulsar. If confirmed, this would be the first millisecond pulsar ...