{"id":245138,"date":"2023-10-02T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=245138"},"modified":"2023-09-29T06:25:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T05:25:21","slug":"scientists-just-proved-that-monster-black-hole-m87-is-spinning-confirming-einsteins-relativity-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/10\/scientists-just-proved-that-monster-black-hole-m87-is-spinning-confirming-einsteins-relativity-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Proved That ‘Monster’ Black Hole M87 Is Spinning–Confirming Einstein\u2019s Relativity Yet Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An artist’s illustration of the black hole M87* wobbling on its axis.
Image credit: Yuzhu Cui et al. 2023, Intouchable Lab@Openverse and Zhejiang Lab<\/p><\/div>\n

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Astronomers have spotted two huge jets fired off by the ‘monster’ black hole M87 wobbling on an 11-year cycle, proving for the first time that black holes spin.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

28 Sep 2023 – <\/em>Astronomers have found the first direct evidence of a black hole spinning, and it’s confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity yet again.<\/p>\n

The discovery was made by studying powerful jets of energy beamed from the solar system<\/a>-size black hole<\/u><\/a> at the center of the neighboring Messier 87 galaxy. The black hole, called M87, is the best studied black hole to date and the first to ever be directly imaged in 2019<\/u><\/a>, with its “donut hole” shadow crowned by a fuzzy halo of light.<\/p>\n