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An illustration of the black hold at the center of the Milky Way

This artist's illustration shows a cross-section of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Researchers, led by Ruth Daly at Penn State, used a new approach to determine the black hole is spinning at about 60% of its maximum potential speed. 

Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss