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Giant Black Hole Spins at Half Light-Speed
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60秒科学节目（SSS）是科学美国人网站的一套广播栏目，英文名称：Scientific American – 60 Second Science,节目内容以科学报道为主，节目仅一分钟的时间，主要对当今的科学技术新发展作以简明、通俗的介绍，对于科学的发展如何影响人们的生活环境、健康状况及科学技术，提供了大量简明易懂的阐释。
Two remarkable things about a giant black hole called RX J1131 at the center of a galaxy some 6 billion light years away. One: it’s the farthest black hole to have its spin measured. Two: it’s spinning at half the speed of light. That’s according to a report in the journal Nature. [R. C. Reis et al., Reflection from the strong gravity regime in a lensed quasar at redshift z = 0.658]
Astronomers have wondered, do large black holes grow gradually via steady intake of material; or quickly, for example, in a merger with another black hole during a galactic collision. Spin offers clues.
If the merger idea is correct, lots of new material flowing in a single direction feeds a black hole, driving the spin faster one way.
But a black hole that ate small meals from different directions would receive tiny pushes that cancel each other, and leave the black hole spinning slowly.
The half-the-speed-of-light-fantastic being tripped by this newly analyzed black hole thus suggests it grew by digesting another black hole in a galaxy merger.
Our own Milky Way’s black hole could be in for a similar fate when we collide with our neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. Relax, it’s not for another fourbillion years.
－Clara Moskowitz
