Black Hole Spinning at Nearly the Speed of Light
NGC 1365
Astronomers, for the first time, have measured the spin rate of a super-massive black hole - and found it is rotating at nearly the speed of light.
The supermassive black hole lies at the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 1365. The sphere is more than 2 million miles across, eight times the distance from Earth to the Moon.
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Once it achieves light speed it should have some crazy implications for spacetime singularity.
Better slow down on the science related articles, you're confusing the paleos.