Spinning Black Holes
Posted on Wednesday 5 November 2003 to Quintessence
It's
been known for a while that many galaxies have super-massive black
holes at their centres (including our
own). Recently it has been shown that at least some of these also rotate extremely rapidly and rapidly spinning massive bodies are thought to twist the fabric
space-time. This is something that a new $700 million space
probe is about to be sent up to test for. Most (but by no means all) galaxies
have other strange
dynamical aspects
as well, I can't help wondering whether some of these could also be
explained by the effects frame dragging by super-massive
bodies.
