{"id":76442,"date":"2018-03-01T20:23:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T04:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/a-star-passing-the-black-hole-at-the-centre-of-our-galaxy-is-about-to-test-einsteins-theory"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:07:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:07:41","slug":"a-star-passing-the-black-hole-at-the-centre-of-our-galaxy-is-about-to-test-einsteins-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/a-star-passing-the-black-hole-at-the-centre-of-our-galaxy-is-about-to-test-einsteins-theory","title":{"rendered":"A Star Passing The Black Hole at The Centre of Our Galaxy Is About to Test Einstein\u2019s Theory"},"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\/duoHtJpo4GY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a few months, astronomers are going to be pointing their telescopes to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because it\u2019s going to be buzzed by a closely orbiting star \u2014 providing another context for testing Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity.<\/p>\n<p>The star is called S0-2, one of a class of stars known as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2013-06-s-star-cluster-galactic-center.html\">S-stars<\/a> (not to be confused with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S-type_star\">S-type stars<\/a>) that closely orbit Sgr A*, which has an estimated mass of around 4.3 million Suns.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/star-orbiting-milky-way-supermassive-black-hole-sagittarius-a-einstein-relativity\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/star-orbiting-milky-way-superma...relativity<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a few months, astronomers are going to be pointing their telescopes to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. That\u2019s because it\u2019s going to be buzzed by a closely orbiting star \u2014 providing another context for testing Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity. The star is called S0-2, one of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76442","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76640,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76442\/revisions\/76640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}