Star in Milky-Way Centre Has Unusual Orbit Proving Black Hole Existence Nearby – Institute

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – European astronomers found out that the star S2 in the centre of the Milky Way has a rosette-shaped orbit, which is another proof of the existence of a black hole in the centre of our galaxy, according to Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics said.

S2 is located near Sagittarius A*, a very compact astronomical radio source with a huge mass at the centre of our galaxy, which is believed to be a black hole.

The discovery has been made with the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile.

Einstein’s general relativity theory, presented in 1915, explained the anomalous perihelion advance of the Mercury, the first discovered celestial object whose orbit could not be correctly described by the Newtonian physics. 

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