Space

Speedy Black Hole Holds Galaxy’s History

Rapidly rotating black hole accreting matter
 
EU–(ENEWSPF)–28 February 2013. A rapidly rotating supermassive black hole has been found in the heart of a spiral galaxy by ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s NuSTAR space observatories, opening a new window into how galaxies grow.

Supermassive black holes are thought to lurk in the centre of almost all large galaxies, and scientists believe that the evolution of a galaxy is inextricably linked with the evolution of its black…

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