Star Dances Around Black Hole, Proving Einstein Right Again
Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 09:30
in Astronomy & Space
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 Newton’s […]