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most citedDetection of the gravitational redshift in the orbit of the star S2 near the Galactic centre massive black hole

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astro-ph.GA2019★ 115 cited

An image of the dust sublimation region in the nucleus of NGC 1068

GRAVITY Collaboration, O. Pfuhl, R. Davies +40

We present near-infrared interferometric data on the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068, obtained with the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope Inter…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 47 cited

Test of Einstein equivalence principle near the Galactic center supermassive black hole

A. Amorim, M. Bauböck, J. P. Berger +49

During its orbit around the four million solar mass black hole Sagittarius A* the star S2 experiences significant changes in gravitational potential. We use this change of potentia…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 5 cited

Detection of a drag force in G2's orbit: Measuring the density of the accretion flow onto Sgr A* at 1000 Schwarzschild radii

S. Gillessen, P. M. Plewa, F. Widmann +14

The Galactic Center black hole Sgr A* is the archetypical example of an underfed massive black hole. The extremely low accretion rate can be understood in radiatively inefficient a…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 947 cited

Detection of the gravitational redshift in the orbit of the star S2 near the Galactic centre massive black hole

GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, A. Amorim +95

The highly elliptical, 16-year-period orbit of the star S2 around the massive black hole candidate Sgr A* is a sensitive probe of the gravitational field in the Galactic centre. Ne…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 5 cited

Probing the Gas Density in our Galactic Center: Moving Mesh Simulations of G2

Elad Steinberg, Re'em Sari, Orly Gnat +11

The G2 object has recently passed its pericenter passage in our Galactic Center. While the emission shows clear signs of tidal interaction, the change in the observed lumino…