The extreme environment surrounding a black hole provides an ideal test bed for the predictions of general relativity. New observations of a spinning black hole push current theories to their limits.
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Bailyn, C. A new spin on black-hole masses. Nature 414, 499–501 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35107183
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