{"id":137302,"date":"2022-03-24T04:03:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T11:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/stars-mysterious-orbit-around-black-hole-proves-einstein-was-right-again"},"modified":"2022-03-24T04:03:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T11:03:15","slug":"stars-mysterious-orbit-around-black-hole-proves-einstein-was-right-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/stars-mysterious-orbit-around-black-hole-proves-einstein-was-right-again","title":{"rendered":"Star\u2019s Mysterious Orbit Around Black Hole Proves Einstein Was Right\u2014 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PR4EzyUv_fs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Star\u2019s mysterious orbit around black hole proves einstein was right all along\u2014again.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The star, known as S2, has a 16-year elliptical orbit. It came near 20 billion kilometers of our black hole, Sagittarius A*, last year. If Isaac Newton\u2019s traditional definition of gravity is correct, S2 should then continue on its previous orbit\u2019s course through space. But it didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it took a slightly divergent route, with the axis of its ellipse altering slightly, according to research published today in Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics by a team employing the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope. As predicted by general relativity, the process known as Schwarzschild precession will eventually force S2 to trace out a spirograph-like floral pattern in space (as illustrated above).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star\u2019s mysterious orbit around black hole proves einstein was right all along\u2014again. The star, known as S2, has a 16-year elliptical orbit. It came near 20 billion kilometers of our black hole, Sagittarius A*, last year. If Isaac Newton\u2019s traditional definition of gravity is correct, S2 should then continue on its previous orbit\u2019s course through [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}