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ESO - Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole (2020)

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ESO press release of 16 April 2020 reporting that the Very Large Telescope's GRAVITY and SINFONI instruments measured the star S2's relativistic orbital precession near Sagittarius A*, the first such confirmation of general relativity near a supermassive black hole.

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European Southern Observatory
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Press release
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European Southern Observatory
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ESO - Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole (2020)
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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.
ESO - Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole (2020)
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ESO - Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole (2020)
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