The orbit of S2 is shown to precess as general relativity predicts

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1. Story
2. The GRAVITY collaboration reported that the orbit of S2 does not close: its pericentre advances from orbit to orbit by the amount general relativity predicts for the Schwarzschild geometry. It is the same class of effect as the anomalous precession of Mercury that supported general relativity in 1915, measured in a field vastly stronger, around an object four million times the mass of the Sun. The measurement also constrains any extended mass distribution inside the orbit.
3. Knowledge
4. Sagittarius A* - the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
5. S2 - the star that measured the Galactic centre
6. Paranal Observatory and the GRAVITY interferometer
7. The orbit of S2 is shown to precess as general relativity predicts
8. Connections
9. S2 - the star that measured the Galactic centre
10. Sagittarius A* - the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
11. Paranal Observatory and the GRAVITY interferometer
12. Sagittarius A* - the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
13. A star is tracked through a complete close approach to the Galactic centre
14. S2 passes pericentre and its light is measurably redshifted
15. The orbit of S2 is shown to precess as general relativity predicts
16. The Nobel Prize in Physics recognises black holes twice over
17. The black hole at the centre of our own galaxy is imaged
18. M87* - the supermassive black hole in Messier 87
19. S2 - the star that measured the Galactic centre
20. A star is tracked through a complete close approach to the Galactic centre
21. The Event Horizon Telescope observes M87* and Sagittarius A*
22. S2 passes pericentre and its light is measurably redshifted
23. The orbit of S2 is shown to precess as general relativity predicts
24. The Nobel Prize in Physics recognises black holes twice over
25. The black hole at the centre of our own galaxy is imaged
26. S2 passes pericentre and its light is measurably redshifted
27. S2 passes pericentre and its light is measurably redshifted
28. The orbit of S2 is shown to precess as general relativity predicts
29. Evidence
30. Reports relativistic pericentre advance in the orbit of S2 at the rate general relativity predicts. V55 VERIFICATION BASIS: not consulted in session; no research tool was available. Volume and article number are from recall and must be checked.