{"id":3927078,"date":"2026-07-21T09:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-star-orbiting-our-galaxys-supermassive-black-hole-tests-the-limits-of-relativity\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:05:15","slug":"a-star-orbiting-our-galaxys-supermassive-black-hole-tests-the-limits-of-relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-star-orbiting-our-galaxys-supermassive-black-hole-tests-the-limits-of-relativity\/","title":{"rendered":"A star orbiting our galaxy&#8217;s supermassive black hole tests the limits of relativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Although general relativity (GR) is an elegant theory of gravity, we don&#8217;t often need to use it. For most gravitational interactions, Newton&#8217;s theory of universal gravitation works just fine. Newton&#8217;s model is good enough to navigate spacecraft through the solar system and for most stars orbiting Sag A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-star-orbiting-galaxy-supermassive-black.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although general relativity (GR) is an elegant theory of gravity, we don&#8217;t often need to use it. For most gravitational interactions, Newton&#8217;s theory of universal gravitation works just fine. Newton&#8217;s model is good enough to navigate spacecraft through the solar system and for most stars orbiting Sag A*, the supermassive black hole at the center [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}