Cutting through the spin on supermassive black holes

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - 08:30 in Astronomy & Space

Astronomers have measured the spin of a black hole buried in the heart of a galaxy located 56 million light years away, and discovered it was spinning quickly – about as quickly as it could go. That was the big news, based on a paper in Nature, in recent days.

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