{"id":230908,"date":"2026-02-09T05:11:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/supermassive-black-hole-at-heart-of-the-milky-way-is-approaching-the-cosmic-speed-limit"},"modified":"2026-02-09T05:11:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:11:58","slug":"supermassive-black-hole-at-heart-of-the-milky-way-is-approaching-the-cosmic-speed-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/supermassive-black-hole-at-heart-of-the-milky-way-is-approaching-the-cosmic-speed-limit","title":{"rendered":"Supermassive black hole at heart of the Milky Way is approaching the cosmic speed limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supermassive-black-hole-at-heart-of-the-milky-way-is-approaching-the-cosmic-speed-limit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiscovering that Sgr A is rotating at its maximum speed has far-reaching implications for our understanding of black hole formation and the astrophysical processes associated with these fascinating cosmic objects,\u201d Xavier Calmet, a theoretical physicist at the University of Sussex who was not involved in the research, told Live Science in an email.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html\">Black holes: Everything you need to know<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A black hole\u2019s spin is different from those of other cosmic objects. Whereas planets, stars and asteroids are solid bodies with physical surfaces, black holes are actually regions of space-time bounded by an outer nonphysical surface called the event horizon, beyond which no light can escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDiscovering that Sgr A is rotating at its maximum speed has far-reaching implications for our understanding of black hole formation and the astrophysical processes associated with these fascinating cosmic objects,\u201d Xavier Calmet, a theoretical physicist at the University of Sussex who was not involved in the research, told Live Science in an email. Related: Black [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}