"Unexpectedly, we found that they were spinning too fast to have been formed by galaxy mergers alone. "They must have formed in large part from material falling in, growing the black hole smoothly ...

The new study, which appears in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, suggests that the Milky Way’s black hole is spinning so fast that it’s actually warping space-time.

This quasar, previously known to scientists ... researchers used the light from RX J1131-1231 to determine how fast its ...