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Biggest Black Hole Turns Out to Be an Even Heftier Lad Than We Thought

Biggest Black Hole Turns Out to Be an Even Heftier Lad Than We Thought Share Published 1 month ago: February 22, 2021 at 2:35 pm - An artist s illustration of the Cygnus X-1 system. To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. When one of us (Ilya Mandel) started grad school at the California Institute of Technology 20 years ago, he was greeted with a series of bets hanging on the wall outside the office of his PhD advisor, Kip Thorne.

Astronomers find the fastest spinning black hole to date

Astronomers find the fastest spinning black hole to date Tim Childers © Provided by Live Science The black hole Cygnus X-1 is pulling material from a massive blue companion star. That stuff forms an accretion disk around the black hole. Six decades after its discovery, the first black hole ever detected is still causing astronomers to scratch their heads. It turns out that the cosmic behemoth at the heart of the Cygnus X-1 system is 50% more massive than previously thought, making it the heaviest stellar-mass black hole ever observed directly. Based on new observations, an international team of researchers estimate the black hole is 21 times the mass of our sun and spinning faster than any other known black hole. The recalculated weight is causing scientists to rethink how bright stars that turn into black holes evolve, and how fast they shed their skins before they die.

Milky Way s black hole is more massive than astronomers thought: Tech News

Milky Way s black hole is more massive than astronomers thought: Tech News
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