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Astronomers Use Destroyed Stars to Measure the Spin of a Supermassive Black Hole for the First Time

Researchers have developed a new way to probe supermassive black holes and their evolution across the universe. Scientists at MIT, NASA, and elsewhere have developed a method to measure black hole spins using the wobbling of accretion disks resulting from tidal disruption events. The technique, i

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