{"id":219316,"date":"2014-03-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press\/2014\/march\/chandra-and-xmm-newton-provide-direct-measurement-of-distant-black-holes-spin"},"modified":"2014-03-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T16:00:00","slug":"chandra-and-xmm-newton-provide-direct-measurement-of-distant-black-holes-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=219316","title":{"rendered":"Chandra and XMM-Newton Provide Direct Measurement of Distant Black Hole&#8217;s Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have used NASA&#8217;s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency&#8217;s (ESA&#8217;s) XMM-Newton to show a supermassive black hole six billion light years from Earth is spinning extremely rapidly. This first direct measurement of the spin of such a distant black hole is an important advance for understanding how black holes grow over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have used NASA&#8217;s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency&#8217;s (ESA&#8217;s) XMM-Newton to show a supermassive black hole six billion light years from Earth is spinning extremely rapidly. This first direct measurement of the spin of such a distant black hole is an important advance for understanding how black holes grow over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219317,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219316\/revisions\/219317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}