Anyone with a record player is familiar with the concept ... The concept itself is straightforward: spin the pyrite disc and use a laser to convert the surface striations into audio.

"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 ...

But what about seventy cars spinning in smoke-filled circles? Now that's something. Earlier this week, over 70 vehicles showed up at Infineon Raceway in order to break the Guinness World Record ...

OTSU, Shiga Prefecture--What is likely to be Japan’s oldest spinning top was unearthed near a site where immigrants from the Korean Peninsula once lived, suggesting that tops were used for ...

ISEHARA, Kanagawa Prefecture--Every Japanese over a certain age can fondly recall playing with an ”Oyama koma” spinning top during their childhood. But now the simple traditional wooden ...

"By looking at the spin of the black hole, you're essentially looking at its fossil record." Related: Time-lapse of 1st black hole ever imaged reveals how matter swirls around it ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the result of a new form of "black hole archeology" that links black ...