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S2 Gravitational Redshift

Germany · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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2018

Frank Eisenhauer26 July 2018

Science / Astronomy

As a leading GRAVITY scientist, helps measure gravitational redshift in S2 during its close passage around Sagittarius A*, testing general relativity near a supermassive black hole.

Names involved

Frank Eisenhauer

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