"Milky Way's Spinning Black Hole Warps Spacetime"

Telescopes have revealed that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is spinning rapidly, warping spacetime into the shape of an American football. This discovery was made using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NSF’s Very Large Array, and suggests that the black hole is spinning at about 60% of the maximum possible rate. The high spin is causing the spacetime around the black hole to be squashed down, potentially leading to increased activity if more material accumulates near the black hole.