31 October 2018
Black hole status of the Milky Way centre confirmed with striking new data
... very small details on faint objects like the centres of galaxies, GRAVITY, along with another instrument called SINFONI, helped the same team to accurately measure the effects predicted by Einstein’s general relativity on the motion of a star...
30 July 2018
Test of Einstein’s general relativity theory successful after 26 years
...to use ESO's Very Large Telescope's instruments (GRAVITY, SINFONI and NACO) to make new infrared observations. The international... gravitational redshift in the spectrum of S2.” The team used SINFONI to measure the velocity of S2 towards and away from ...
17 December 2021
New study shows that 99.9% of the mass at the centre of our galaxy is due to black hole
..., S2, S29, S38, and S55, with the Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph (GNIRS) at Gemini North and the SINFONI instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, the team found that the stars were...
