The black hole is located at the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147 around 130 million light-years away from Earth.
Astronomers have spotted something unusual around a supermassive black hole which shouldn't be there in the first place.
The team analyzed data collected by Hubble from the black hole in question—which has a mass about 250 million times greater than that of our sun—finding that the disc of material surrounding it was spinning at around 10 percent the speed of light. "We've never seen the effects of both general and special relativity in visible light with this much clarity," Marco Chiaberge, another author of the study from Johns Hopkins University, said in a statement.
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