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Supermassive black hole spin measured for the first time
Cosmos· 22 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· 18 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· 2 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· 2 days agoThe "wobbling" remains of a star that suffered a grisly death at the maw of a supermassive black ...
Weird Supermassive Forces Are Making Black Holes Collide
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThey’re not super well understood, but they’re very, very old and inseparable from the galaxies they...
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...
Death star black holes "swiveling around and pointing at new targets"—NASA
Newsweek· 17 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· 20 hours 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· 2 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· 2 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 ...