A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

By looking at the spin of the black hole, you're essentially looking at its fossil record." So what does that fossil record tell us? First of all, it challenges the prevailing wisdom that black ...

"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 ...

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 ...