Chile astronomers discover star dancing according to Einstein's century-old theory

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Chile astronomers discover star dancing according to Einstein's century-old theory
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SANTIAGO (REUTERS) - Astronomers in Chile using one of the world's largest telescopes have found a star 'dancing' around a black hole in the Milky Way just as Albert Einstein might have predicted more than a century ago.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SANTIAGO - Astronomers in Chile using one of the world's largest telescopes have found a star"dancing" around a black hole in the Milky Way just as Albert Einstein might have predicted more than a century ago.

But Thursday's announcement from the European Southern Observatory , an inter-governmental group of European astronomers that operates in Chile, proves the theory applies even to a star some 26,000 light years from the Sun. Their discovery proved Einstein, and not his predecessor Isaac Newton, was right. Newton believed it would travel in an ellipse-like pattern.

The discovery also provides further evidence of the existence of a black hole called Sagittarius A*, which is believed to have 4 million times the mass of the Sun, the statement said.

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