Evidence For Rotating Black Holes

Ambush_Bug writes: "Tod Strohmayer of NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center has announced the first real observational evidence for a rotating black hole. The Washington Post covers the article here. There's a really awesome real video artists rendition of a black hole accreting mass from a nearby blue giant star... check it out!" And how many science writers get to use the words "a specimen about 10,000 light-years from Earth appears to be whipping matter around itself at 27,000 revolutions per minute, flashing X-rays in unsteady spasms and twisting the fabric of space-time"?

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I dunno... Sounds kinda racy to me...

[Bonker]

Hmmm....

Breathily, the blue giant star leaned over the black hole, his eyes locked upon her event horizon. She stared lovingly into his corona as he began to caress her singularity with strong, hot tendrils of superheated gas and waves of intense gravity. With a grin of pleasure, he reached back and whipped her with his accreting mass.

"Please," the black hole whispered, letting the supergiant know she was ready for his super-dense mass and fusion-powered passion.

They began slowly, but quickly worked up to almost 27,000 revolutions per minute. After just a short while, she began to flash her x-rays in unsteady spasms of delight and joy. She twisted the fabric of space-time beneath her in ecstacy...

Suddenly, she realized that the blue supergiant had gone.

"Hello?" she cried out. "Where did you go? Damn it! I lose more stars that way..."