Astronomers Discover a Supermassive Black Hole Rotating At Half the Speed of Light

Astronomers Discover a Supermassive Black Hole Rotating At Half the Speed of Light

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NASA astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole that is rotating at least 380 million miles per hour, or at half the speed of light.

To put that in perspective, that means the black hole—with a diameter 300 times larger than Earth—completes a rotation roughly every two minutes.