Groundbreaking Measurement Reveals a Black Hole Spinning at a Quarter the Speed of Light
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A team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin thanks to the object’s chance meeting with a star—which it promptly destroyed.