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The Milky Way's black hole is shaping spacetime into a football

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75% Informative

Sagittarius A

or Sgr A

at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is spinning so fast that it is warping spacetime into an oval shape reminiscent of an American football.

The faster a black hole spins, the more powerful the collimated jets of radiation it emits as particles in the hot disk of matter swirling around the black hole are swept up and spat out.

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85

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88

Neutral language

60

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formal

Language

English

Language complexity

55

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not offensive

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not hateful

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long-living