{"id":81076,"date":"2018-07-30T19:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T02:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/einsteins-general-relativity-confirmed-near-black-hole"},"modified":"2018-08-04T10:01:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:01:43","slug":"einsteins-general-relativity-confirmed-near-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/einsteins-general-relativity-confirmed-near-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"Einstein\u2019s general relativity confirmed near black hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/einsteins-general-relativity-confirmed-near-black-hole2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Observations made with ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope have for the first time revealed the effects predicted by Einstein\u2019s general relativity on the motion of a star passing through the extreme gravitational field near the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way. This long-sought result represents the climax of a 26-year-long observation campaign using ESO\u2019s telescopes in Chile.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credit: European Space Observatory<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/einsteins-general-relativity-confirmed-near-black-hole2.jpg\" width=\"1440\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/07\/180730090158.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/07\/180730090158.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observations made with ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope have for the first time revealed the effects predicted by Einstein\u2019s general relativity on the motion of a star passing through the extreme gravitational field near the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way. This long-sought result represents the climax of a 26-year-long observation campaign [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81076","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81098,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81076\/revisions\/81098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}