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March 10, 2013
This illustration released by NASA, shows a supermassive black hole in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 1365. A study published in the journal Nature calculated the spin rate of the black hole and found it’s rotating close to the speed of light.
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Black holes in galaxies rotate fast, study finds
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