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The discovery of a star racing around the Milky Way galaxy's central black hole could be crucial to revealing the fabric of space and time around black holes—and may allow scientists to test Einstein's theory of relativity.
It’s the shortest known orbit of any star near this black hole. The previous record-holding star, known as S0-2 (The star with the yellow orbit in the GIF animation), orbits in 16 years.
The newly discovered star, known as S0-102 (the “S” is for Sagittarius, the constellation containing the galactic center and the black hole, the star with the dark pink orbit in the GIF animation), could offer a unique opportunity to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity, says Tuan Do, an astronomer at the University of Toronto’s Dunlap Institute and a member of the team that made the discovery. They report their findings in Science.
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It’s the shortest known orbit of any star near this black hole. The previous record-holding star, known as S0-2 (The star with the yellow orbit in the GIF animation), orbits in 16 years.
The newly discovered star, known as S0-102 (the “S” is for Sagittarius, the constellation containing the galactic center and the black hole, the star with the dark pink orbit in the GIF animation), could offer a unique opportunity to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity, says Tuan Do, an astronomer at the University of Toronto’s Dunlap Institute and a member of the team that made the discovery. They report their findings in Science.
Insanely fast star puts Einstein’s theory to the test
U. TORONTO (CAN) — A star orbits the massive black hole at the Milky Way’s […]
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