Relativistic redshift of the star S0-2 orbiting the Galactic Center supermassive black hole

Tuan Do1, Aurelien Hees2,3, Andrea Ghez3

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. tdo@astro.ucla.edu.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|July 27, 2019
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