Scientists discover black holes spinning unexpectedly fast: 'You're essentially looking at its fossil record'

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Scientists discover black holes spinning unexpectedly fast: 'You're essentially looking at its fossil record'

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the result of a new form of "black hole archeology" that links black hole spins to the gas and dust they have consumed to grow over 7 billion years of cosmic history. The findings, courtesy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) suggest a few things. For one, the early universe may have been more orderly than previously sus…