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Supermassive black hole spin measured for the first time
Cosmos· 13 hours agoFor the first time, astronomers have been able to determine how fast a black hole is spinning. The...
'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan!...
Space via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoSupermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation...
Astronomers measure a supermassive black hole’s spin
Astronomy Magazine· 1 day 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 via Yahoo News· 1 day agoA trail of orange matter trails behind. An inset in the top right shows a diagram of a black circle...
Death star black holes "swiveling around and pointing at new targets"—NASA
Newsweek· 8 hours agoAccording to a new paper in The Astrophysical Journal, these jets—fired out from each black hole in...
Scientists clocked a black hole spinning at a quarter of light speed
Quartz· 11 hours agoA team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin...
Webb Telescope Spots Most Distant Black Hole Merger Ever Detected
IFLScience· 6 days agoAstronomers have discovered the most distant pair of interacting supermassive black holes. The light...
Weird Supermassive Forces Are Making Black Holes Collide
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThey’re not super well understood, but they’re very, very old and inseparable from the galaxies they...
Astronomers Just Calculated The Spin Speed of a Supermassive Black Hole
MSN News· 1 day 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 ...
Astronomers Stumbled Upon A Rare Chance To Capture Just How Fast A Supermassive Black Hole Spins
Inverse· 1 day agoThere are behemoths that lurk at the center of almost all large galaxies in the known universe,...