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No, I don’t believe so. See quote below, emphasis mine.

The spin speed of a black hole is defined as “a” and given a value from 0 to 1, with 1 being the maximum rotational speed to a particular black hole, which is a significant fraction of the speed of light. Ruth A. Daly, a physicist at Penn State, and colleagues found that the rotational speed of Sgr A* is between 0.84 and 0.96 — close to the top limit defined by a black hole’s width. The team described Sgr A*'s blistering speed in a study published Oct. 21 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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Ye I read that but the title seemed to imply it is continuing to get faster

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it can continue to get faster but would not reach the speed of light. energy needed to accelerate it further reaches infinity as its speed approaches the speed of light. so it can get arbitrarily close to that speed, without ever reaching it.

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I don’t get this. I didn’t think you’d need more energy to accelerate from 0-10 km/h than from 10-20. It’s the same delta-V, right? I’m missing something, I feel.

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