XRISM Provides the Sharpest Image to Date of a Rapidly Spinning Black Hole

January 04, 2026 Universe Today

XRISM Provides the Sharpest Image to Date of a Rapidly Spinning Black Hole
By Matthew Williams (https://ift.tt/tH0xQPA)

Artist's rendering of the innermost regions around the SMBH at the center of MCG-6-30-15 and the spectra obtained by XRISM/Resolve (inset). Credit: CfA/Melissa Weiss

The first results on the iconic active galactic nucleus MCG–6-30-15 captured with the XRISM mission show the most precise signatures yet of its supermassive black hole’s extreme gravity and the outflows that shape its galaxy.

January 5, 2026 at 06:36AM
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