Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: X-Ray Space Telescope Gives Sharpest-Ever Glimpse at Growth of a Rapidly-Spinning Black Hole
December 18, 2025
December 18, 2025
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 18 (TNSjou) -- The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics issued the following news release:
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X-ray Space Telescope Gives Sharpest-Ever Glimpse at Growth 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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X-ray Space Telescope Gives Sharpest-Ever Glimpse at Growth 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.