Astronomers have spotted two huge jets fired off by the 'monster' M87 black hole wobbling on an 11-year cycle, proving for the first time that black holes spin.
Astronomers have found the first direct evidence of a black hole spinning, and it's confirmed Einstein's theory of relativity yet again.
Astrophysicists have long predicted that black holes spun, but the challenge of imaging the cosmic monstrosities has, until now, made evidence hard to come by. The researchers published their findings Sept. 27 in the journal Nature.
Some of this material is spat out, forming two jets of hot material that, in roughly a tenth of cases, travels at 99.9% the speed of light. How black hole jets acquire the enormous energy needed to do this has been a mystery, but physicists used Einstein's general theory of relativity to suggest the material could get it from the cosmic monsters' magnetic fields, if they were spinning rapidly on their axes.
RELATED STORIES—For the 1st time, scientists accidentally measure the swirling ring around a black holeTo search for clues of this elusive spin, astronomers turned to the M87 supermassive black hole, an enormous space-time tear that uses its mass to anchor an entire galaxy.
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