It Spins!
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ifty million light-years from Earth, at the center of a cluster of several thousand galaxies, lies Messier 87, a galaxy with a gigantic black hole 5 billion times the mass of the sun at its core—but not at rest. It spins. Despite a number of models indicating that black holes to spin, it’s only now, after examining 22 years of data, that scientists have seen a tell-tale wobble. Like a whirling top beginning to fall, this wobble shows that Messier 87’s supermassive black hole be spinning, published in .
