2011

Measuring the Spins of Accreting Black Holes

McClintock, Jeffrey E., Narayan, Ramesh, Davis, Shane W. et al.

Understand

A typical galaxy is thought to contain tens of millions of stellar-mass black holes, the collapsed remnants of once massive stars, and a single nuclear supermassive black hole.

Both classes of black holes accrete gas from their environments.
The accreting gas forms a flattened orbiting structure known as an accretion disk.
During the past several years, it has become possible to obtain measurements of the spins of the two classes of black holes by modeling the X-ray emission from their accretion disks.

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