Physical laboratory at the center of the Galaxy
V. I. Dokuchaev, Yu. N. Eroshenko

TL;DR
This paper reviews the physical processes at the Galactic Center, focusing on the supermassive black hole Sgr A*, its mass measurement, potential dark matter insights, and black hole spin estimation through oscillation observations.
Contribution
It provides refined measurements of Sgr A*'s mass and spin using stellar orbits and oscillation data, and discusses the potential to detect dark matter effects.
Findings
Mass of Sgr A* is approximately 4.1 million solar masses.
Black hole spin parameter estimated at about 0.65.
Oscillation periods relate to the black hole's gravitational field.
Abstract
We review the physical processes that occur at the center of the Galaxy and that are related to the supermassive black hole Sgr A* residing there. The discovery of high-velocity S0 stars orbiting Sgr A* for the first time allowed measuring the mass of this supermassive black hole, the closest one to us, with a 10\% accuracy, with the result . Further monitoring can potentially discover the Newtonian precession of the S0 star orbits in the gravitational field of the black hole due to invisible distributed matter. This will yield the "weight" of the elusive dark matter concentrated there and provide new information for the identification of dark matter particles. The weak accretion activity of the "dormant quasar" at the Galactic center occasionally shows up as quasiperiodic X-ray and near-IR oscillations with mean periods of and min. These…
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