Our Black Hole Spins at 60% of the Theoretical Maximum -- and other weird facts about it

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Black holes are weird already, but it turns out that the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy is a particularly weird one. Sagittarius A* is about 26,700 light-years away from Earth and has some pretty odd properties that surprised astronomers who have been studying it. Let’s take a look at what they’ve found out about our friendly neighbourhood black hole.

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