Astronomers suspect a blackhole's rotation speed is rotating at an increased rate, six billion light years away from the earth.
According to RedOrbit, the find, dubbed quasar RX J1131-1231, was discovered by Rubens Reis, an astronomer at the University of Michigan, and a team of fellow researchers via the XMM Newton telescope, which belongs to NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency.
"We want to be able to cut out the middle man, so to speak, of determining the spins of black holes across the universe," Rubens Reis of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor told RedOrbit.
While the find is six billion light years away from planet earth, scientists believed it was 4.7 billion light years before.
"Because of this gravitational lens, we were able to get very detailed information on the X-ray spectrum - that is, the amount of X-rays seen at different energies - from RX J1131," Mark Reynolds, one of the authors of the study, and an astronomer at The University of Michigan told RedOrbit. "This in turn allowed us to get a very accurate value for how fast the black hole is spinning."
The black hole came into existence after galaxies combined with each other than matter coming together from various places in space. According to the Almagest, black holes have rotation which is hard to examine, and mass that is detected accurately.
"We estimate that the X-rays are coming from a region in the disk located only about three times the radius of the event horizon, the point of no return for infalling matter," Jon Miller from the University of Michigan told RedOrbit. "The black hole must be spinning extremely rapidly to allow a disk to survive at such a small radius." Miller was also one of the ones who wrote the report RedOrbit reported.
