A star known as S0-2, the blue and green object in this artist's rendering, that made its closest approach to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way in 2018 is shown in this U.S. National Science Foundation image released on July 25, 2019. Courtesy Nicolle R. Fuller/National Science Foundation/Handout via REUTERS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Observations of light coming from a star zipping in orbit around the humongous black hole at the centre of our galaxy have provided fresh evidence backing Albert Einstein's 1915 theory of general relativity, astronomers said on Thursday.
Researchers studied a star called S0-2, boasting a mass roughly 10 times larger than the sun, as it travels in an elliptical orbit lasting 16 years around the supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* residing at the centre of the Milky Way 26,000 light years from Earth.
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