Stellar rotation of S301 as a macroscopic gyroscope to test general relativity

arXiv:2607.26134 · astro-ph.GA, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-07-28 · Read on arXiv

Pau Amaro Seoane, Xian Chen, Alejandro Torres-Orjuela, Reinhard Genzel, Frank Eisenhauer, Thomas Ott, Stefan Gillessen, Guillaume Bourdarot, Diogo C. Ribeiro, Matteo Sadun Bordoni, Simran Joharle, Felix Mang, Andreas Burkert, Jorge Cuadra, Diego Calderón, Hagai B. Perets, Tsvi Piran, Thorsten Naab, Re'em Sari

astro-ph.GA, gr-qc

Submitted: 2026-07-28

Comments: Submitted

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Degeneracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Scaling Laws — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Discovery of a star sensitive to the spin of Sgr A*

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