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Testing the General Relativistic "No-Hair" Theorems Using the Galactic Center Black Hole Sagittarius A*
If a class of stars orbits the central black hole in our galaxy in short-period (~0.1 yr), high-eccentricity (~0.9) orbits, they will experience precessions of their orbital planes induced by both relativistic frame dragging and the quadrupolar gravity of the hole, at levels that could be as large as 10 …