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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...
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...
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...
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 < ...
'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan!...
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoSupermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation...
Using wobbling stellar material, astronomers measure the spin of a supermassive black hole for the...
Science Daily· 3 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 ...
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 ...
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,...
Death star black holes "swiveling around and pointing at new targets"—NASA
Newsweek· 1 day agoAccording to a new paper in The Astrophysical Journal, these jets—fired out from each black hole in...
Webb Telescope Spots Most Distant Black Hole Merger Ever Detected
IFLScience· 7 days agoAstronomers have discovered the most distant pair of interactingsupermassive black holes. The light...