General relativity caught in action around black hole
Wobbling disk of orbiting debris shows yanking and twisting of spacetime
RELATIVITY TEST BED The black hole H1743-322 is corralling material from a star to form a disk, similar to the setup in this illustration. Researchers studied X-rays from the disk to detect an effect called frame dragging.
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