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Thanks to the neural network, the researchers now suspect, for example, that the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is spinning almost at top speed. Its rotation axis points to Earth.
Why wouldn’t the rotation axis be perpendicular to the galactic plane? Pointing right at Earth seems a bit suspicious.
I had the same thought!
But it must also be pointing directly away from earth so nothing suspicious here.
"Why not make the black hole spin faster at top speed?"
"...But this blackhole spins at 11"
"We fed synthetic data to a program and it gave us truths of the universe"
mmm. okay.