Sunday, January 4, 2026

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

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.



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