Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope may reveal a secret merger in our supermassive black hole's past, potentially ...
whether this black hole is spinning or not has been a central concern among scientists," says astrophysicist and co-author Kazuhiro Hada from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
The physicist Roger Penrose suggested that, if an object fell into a rotating black hole in such a way that it split – with ...
According to the researchers, Sagittarius A* is like a powerful engine that sucks matter now and then and spits it out at ...
For decades, a black hole that has as much spin or charge as it can given it mass was considered mathematically impossible. A ...
This week, science reporter Isaac Schultz described a groundbreaking effort to measure the spin of a supermassive black hole, and a fascinating experimental archaeology experiment in which ...
A team of scientists has discovered that the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning so fast that it's squishing space-time. Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Astronomers studying the Milky Way's supermassive black hole have found "compelling evidence ...
But how the black hole came to be, and why it is spinning surprisingly fast and out of orientation with the rest of the galaxy, remain unknown. Now, data from the telescope that first captured ...