All black holes have spin, which they develop through their interactions with other matter in space.

The teams research waspublishedtoday in Nature.

The spin of a black hole is tied to its evolution.

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An illustration of a tidal disruption event of a supermassive black hole.Illustration:NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA/GESTAR)

The group discovered that the X-ray emissions from the source peaked every 15 days.

They arrived at an estimate for the spin of the black hole itself.

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