Showing posts with label speed of light. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speed of light. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Black Hole Spins at Nearly the Speed of Light
A superfast black hole nearly 60 million light-years away appears to be pushing the ultimate speed limit of the universe, a new study says.
For the first time, astronomers have managed to measure the rate of spin of a supermassive black hole—and it's been clocked at 84 percent of the speed of light, or the maximum allowed by the law of physics.
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