Black hole at center of the Milky Way resembl

<p>The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football, according to a new study using data from NASA&rsquo;s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the U.S. National Science Foundation&rsquo;s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). That football shape suggests the black hole is spinning at a substantial speed, which researchers estimated to be about 60% of its potential limit. The work, led by Penn State Berks Professor of Physics Ruth Daly, was published in the&nbsp;<a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024MNRAS.527..428D/abstract">Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</a>.</p>

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