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XRISM Provides the Sharpest Image to Date of a Rapidly Spinning Black Hole


The first results on the iconic active galactic nucleus MCG–6-30-15 captured with the XRISM mission show the most precise signatures yet of its supermassive black hole’s extreme gravity and the outflows that shape its galaxy.

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