The first photo ever captured of a black hole was taken by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration back in 2019. The black hole is called Messier 87 and it was a momentous achievement for astronomers. Now, after years of analysis, experts say they've discovered something new about it
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“After the success of black hole imaging in this galaxy with the Event Horizon Telescope, whether this black hole is spinning or not has been a central concern among scientists,” said astrophysicist and study co-author Kazuhiro Hada from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. “Now anticipation has turned into certainty. This monster black hole is indeed spinning.”
“Proving that supermassive black holes spin would provide further evidence in support of Einstein’s theories of relativity,” Benbow added. “Independently confirming that they are spinning using a new technique places many important theories on much firmer footing.” “There is a mechanism called the ‘Penrose process’ that allows one to extract energy from a spinning black hole — and now we know that it can in fact work in the Universe and not just on paper,” Chilingaryan continued.
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