Fastest Spinning Black Hole Ever Found 204
brian0918 writes, "NewScientist reports that researchers in Cambridge have detected a black hole spinning at nearly 1,000 times per second — the fastest ever recorded. From the article: 'McClintock's team examined a black hole in our galaxy called GRS 1915+105, which lies about 36,000 light years away. They found the innermost stable orbit around GRS 1915 is so close that the black hole must be spinning at nearly 1000 times per second. The finding supports the idea that only fast-spinning stars can collapse to create powerful explosions called long gamma-ray bursts.'" The Astrophysical Journal abstract is open but you have to be a subscriber to read the full article there.
Not so impressed (Score:1, Funny)
In addition to low throughput, I bet there would be some data loss.
Fastest Spinning Black-Hole (Score:5, Funny)
One thing is for sure. (Score:4, Funny)
So the question is... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not so impressed (Score:2, Funny)
obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Orbiting at no more than 30 miles from the cent (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fastest Spinning Black-Hole (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Is that fast enough for closed timelike curves? (Score:2, Funny)
Yup, I saw him tomorrow
Re:Fastest Spinning Black-Hole (Score:4, Funny)