Nuevos datos proveen una descripción completa de un agujero negro

El Headquartered en Cambridge, Mass., el Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) en colaboración con el Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory y el Harvard College Observatory, han anunciado que ya cuentan con una descripción completamente detallada de un agujero negro, que incluye su masa, la velocidad que gira, y su edad aproximada:

"From their telescope data, scientists have determined that the black hole is about 6,070 light years from Earth, and it’s mass is almost 15 times that of the Sun’s. The Event Horizon of the Black Hole – which is the point where nothing, not even light, can escape, is spinning at about 800 revolutions per second. The team was also able to determine that Cygnus X-1 is not the result of a supernova – the proposed cause for some black holes – but rather the collapse of a star that at one point was most likely 100 times the mass of the Sun. From all of this data, the scientists were able to determine that the black hole itself is about 6 million years old – just a baby, in stellar terms."

Fuente: New Data Provides A Complete Description Of A Black Hole. Forbes.