///@james.webb.telescope.official: Astronomers have spotted two huge jets fired off by the 'monster' black hole M87 wobbling on an 11-year cycle, proving for the first time that black holes spin and this has confirmed Einstein's theory of relativity yet again. By studying jets of energy beamed from Supermassive black hole at the center of the neighboring M87 galaxy, using a global network of radio telescopes from 2000 to 2022, and the astronomers found that the black hole's jets were ticking back and forth like metronomes marking out an 11-year cycle. This showed that the black hole was wobbling on its axis as it rotated, just like a spinning top. A number of exciting questions emerge from the discovery of black hole spin. Among them are ones relating to what catastrophic events could have caused the rapid rotation, as well as the possibility of discovering photon spheres a faint ring of light surrounding the black hole that could give important hints into a theory of quantum gravity.
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