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by tEMporality7 2886 days ago
Wouldn't Newtonian models be off in their predictions for those extreme cases?
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Indeed that's the point:

> The team compared the position and velocity measurements from GRAVITY and SINFONI respectively, along with previous observations of S2 using other instruments, with the predictions of Newtonian gravity, general relativity and other theories of gravity. The new results are inconsistent with Newtonian predictions and in excellent agreement with the predictions of general relativity.

I assume that's the point?