Our Galaxys Monster Black Hole Is Spinning Almost as Fast as . . . The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate That's just one thing astrophysicists have discovered after developing and applying a new method to tease apart the secrets still hidden in supermassive black hole observations collected by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)
Our Galaxys Monster Black Hole Is Spinning Almost As Fast As . . . The study of the black hole in our galaxy has taken years to analyze A large number of images were taken during an observing campaign in 2017, producing six terabytes of data These data had to be processed and analyzed – a process that took years, and the development of new algorithms to compensate for the rapid changeability
A Terrifying Glimpse Into Our Galaxy’s Possible Fate: A . . . They found a gargantuan spiral galaxy—dubbed 2MASX J23453268−0449256—about one billion light-years from Earth, with a heart of darkness: an insanely massive black hole, billions of times the mass of our Sun, blasting out colossal radio jets