Einstein’s Theory Comes Wrapped Up With A Bow: Astronomers Spot Star ‘Wobbling’ Around Black Hole

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in the night sky.

Their study, presented in Science Advances, reports on the very first observations of a swirling vortex in spacetime caused by a rapidly rotating black hole.

The process, known as Lense-Thirring precession or frame-dragging, describes how black holes twist the spacetime that surrounds them, dragging nearby objects like stars and wobbling their orbits along the way.