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Nov 20, 2023

Supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is approaching the cosmic speed limit, dragging space-time along with it

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The supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy isn’t just spinning — it’s doing so at almost maximum speed, dragging anything near it along for the ride.

Physicists calculated the rotational speed of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A, by using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to view the X-rays and radio waves emanating from outflows of material.

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