Scientists confirm Einstein’s supermassive black hole theory

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Reuters

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Reuters

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Thu, 2018-07-26 15:08

BERLIN: A team of international scientists observing a star in the Milky Way have for the first time confirmed Einstein’s predictions of what happens to the motion of a star passing close to a supermassive black hole.
Einstein’s 100-year-old general theory of relativity predicted that light from stars would be stretched to longer wavelengths by the extreme gravitational field of a black hole, and the star would appear redder, an effect known as gravitational red shift.

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