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Supermassive black hole spin measured for the first time
Cosmos· 21 hours agoFor the first time, astronomers have been able to determine how fast a black hole is spinning. The...
Churning spacetime and destroyed stars help reveal how fast supermassive black holes spin
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA trail of orange matter trails behind. An inset in the top right shows a diagram of a black circle...
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...
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...
'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan!...
Space via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoSupermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation...
Astronomers Just Calculated The Spin Speed of a Supermassive Black Hole
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA feast devoured by a supermassive black hole a billion light-years from Earth has revealed how fast that black < ...
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,...
Using wobbling stellar material, astronomers measure the spin of a supermassive black hole for the...
Science Daily· 2 days agoThe MIT-led team has shown that the wobble of the newly created accretion disk is key to working out the central black hole's inherent spin. In a study ...
Death star black holes "swiveling around and pointing at new targets"—NASA
Newsweek· 16 hours agoAccording to a new paper in The Astrophysical Journal, these jets—fired out from each black hole in...
Webb Telescope Spots Most Distant Supermassive Black Hole Merger Yet
ExtremeTech· 4 days agoAstronomers have been probing the secrets of black holes for decades, gaining an impressive understanding of these extreme objects, and we have the pictures to prove it. It's ...