NASA/CXC/M.Weiss Not only did this research reveal that many black holes are spinning more rapidly than expected, but it also showed that black holes in more distant galaxies spin even more ...

"Unexpectedly, we found that they were spinning too fast to have been formed by galaxy mergers alone. "They must have formed in large part from material falling in, growing the black hole smoothly ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast ... In other words, when galaxies merged, so did their central black holes. Each galaxy brings a rotation ...

“The fact that we can track this region of bright X-ray emission as it circles the black hole lets us track just how quickly material in the disk is spinning,” MIT’s Dheeraj Pasham, lead ...