Measurements Of Spin Rate - Super Massive Black Holes.

[Perkil8r]

 http://scitechdaily.com/scientists-measure-the-spin-rates-of-supermassive-black-holes/

 

Using the NuSTAR and XMM-Newton telescopes, researchers traced
matter as it swirled into a black hole, resolving a long-standing debate
about black holes and gaining a better understanding of how black holes
and galaxies evolve.

 

The supermassive black hole lies at the dust- and gas-filled heart of a
galaxy called NGC 1365, and it is spinning almost as fast as Einstein’s
theory of gravity will allow.

 

These things and our ability to understand / work them out never fails to astonish me.

 

Interesting reading indeed. As too are a lot of the articles from SciTech Daily.

Edited February 28, 2013 by Perkil8r

[Perkil8r]

And a slightly different spin on the same article from NASA

 

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/nustar/news/nustar20130227.html

[Tibbz2]

I was reading about this earlier, certainly share the thought of how amazing it is for us to even go about finding this stuff out! Articles like this certainly fuel my drive towards my future. One day I really hope to be doing it myself. 

Edited February 28, 2013 by Tibbz2