Supermassive Black Holes' Rapid Rotation

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Scientists discover black holes spinning unexpectedly fast: 'You’re essentially looking at its fossil record'

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Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected.

The discovery came as the result of a new form of "black hole archeology" that links black hole spins to the gas and dust they have consumed to grow over 7 billion years of cosmic history.

The findings suggest that the early universe may have been more orderly than previously suspected.

Fries presented the findings on Jan. 14 at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in National Harbor , Maryland .

"We undertake massive surveys like SDSS to build an empirical astrophysical picture of their fundamental properties," Fries said.

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