6-billion-year-old quasar spinning nearly as fast as physically possible Gravitational magnification allowed measurement of black hole spin.

This new picture of the month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features the gravitational lensing of the quasar known as RX J1131-1231, located roughly six billion light-years from ...

The new image captures a distant quasar known as RX J1131-1231, which lies about 6 billion light-years from Earth.The powerful gravitational field of a nearby elliptical galaxy, located in the ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured how fast a black hole spins, clocking its rotation at nearly half the speed of light. The distant supermassive black hole would ordinarily be ...

An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to perform spectroscopic observations of a luminous quasar known as J1007+2115. They detected a fast outflow ...

A composite image of quasar H1821+643 combining X-ray, optical and radio wavelengths. (Image credit: ... the scientists calculated how fast the monster black hole is spinning.

They found that Sagittarius A* — located 26,000 light-years away from Earth, according to NASA — is spinning so fast that it's actually dragging surrounding space-time along with it, squishing ...

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.

The ESO observations of the giant quasar reveal that the object devours material at, frankly, an unreasonable pace. Already, it has a mass equal to 17 billion suns, and it’s eating a new one ...

Ok, this may be a question that really doesn't have an answer, but from what I've read on the subject, as you get closer to black hole (well, specifically the event horizon), time slows relative ...