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Groundbreaking Measurement Reveals a Black Hole Spinning at a Quarter the Speed of Light

An illustration of a tidal disruption event of a supermassive black hole.
An illustration of a tidal disruption event of a supermassive black hole. Illustration: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA/GESTAR)

A team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin thanks to the object’s chance meeting with a star—which it promptly destroyed. – Isaac Schultz Read More

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