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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...
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 ...
'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan!...
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSupermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation...
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...
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...
Astronomers Stumbled Upon A Rare Chance To Capture Just How Fast A Supermassive Black Hole Spins
Inverse· 3 days agoThere are behemoths that lurk at the center of almost all large galaxies in the known universe,...
Astronomers Just Calculated The Spin Speed of a Supermassive Black Hole
MSN News· 3 days agoA feast devoured by a supermassive black hole a billion light-years from Earth has revealed how fast that black hole spins on its axis ...
Webb Telescope Spots Most Distant Black Hole Merger Ever Detected
IFLScience· 7 days agoAstronomers have discovered the most distant pair of interacting supermassive black holes. The light...
Death star black holes "swiveling around and pointing at new targets"—NASA
Newsweek· 2 days agoAccording to a new paper in The Astrophysical Journal, these jets—fired out from each black hole in...
JWST Spots Most Distant Black Hole Merger Yet
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 4 days agoDuring one of its surveys, it picked up a pair of galaxies on a collision course, a system now known as ZS7. At the center of each galaxy is a ...
