{"id":931,"date":"2014-03-07T05:12:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T13:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2014-03-06T05:12:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T13:12:56","slug":"66-am-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":".66 < a\/m < .87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fastest a black hole can spin is a\/m = 1 (a\/m is a dimensionless spin speed, obtained by setting the gravitational constant G, and the speed of light c, to 1). This may not mean anything to you, but I studied this in my thesis. <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2014\/03\/6-billion-year-old-quasar-spinning-nearly-as-fast-as-physically-possible\/#p3\">Current observations of a 6.1 billion year quasar.<\/a> That&#8217;s fast for a black hole.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-931\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/?p=931&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-931\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/?p=931&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fastest a black hole can spin is a\/m = 1 (a\/m is a dimensionless spin speed, obtained by setting the gravitational constant G, and the speed of light c, to 1). This may not mean anything to you, but &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/?p=931\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-931\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/?p=931&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-931\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/?p=931&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgWoS-f1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}