Monday, 20 April 2020

A star orbiting the Milky Way’s giant black hole confirms Einstein was right

A star orbiting the Milky Way’s giant black hole confirms Einstein was right

The first sign that Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity was correct has made a repeat appearance, this time near a supermassive black hole. In 1915, Einstein realized that his newly formulated general theory of relativity explained a weird quirk in the orbit of Mercury. Now, that same effect has been found in a star’s orbit of the enormous black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, researchers with the GRAVITY collaboration report April 16 in Astronomy & Astrophysics.

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