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The Milky Way's Black Hole Is Spinning as Fast as It Can
- tromp 3y ago> What they found was that the a value for our black hole is between 0.84 and 0.96, which means it’s rotating incredibly fast. At the upper range of the estimated rotation, it would be rotating at nearly the maximal rate. This is even higher than the spin parameter of the black hole in M87, where a is estimated to be between 0.89 and 0.91. [0.84,0.96] and [0.89,0.91] are both centered on 0.90; strange to say that the former is higher, it's mostly just less well determined.
- itronitron 3y agoSo if the spin reaches 1, then theoretically the gravitational pull and centrifugal forces would cancel out at the equator and a very thin person could stand there without being ripped apart?
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