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Telescope Sees Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole, Proves Einstein Right

Observations made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed for the first time that a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Its orbit is shaped like a rosette and not like an ellipse as predicted by…
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Apr 16, 2020Telescope Sees Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole, Proves Einstein Right by lelf14165

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