Earth has just found 2,000 light-years near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole

It is at the center of our galaxy The navel is called A *. It is about 4 million times the mass of our Sun.

Great news! Scientists have found that we are closer to 2,000 light years than the A * sound.

This does not mean that we are currently facing a black hole. No, this is the result of a more accurate radio wave model based on new data.

Over the past 15 years Vera, a Japanese radio astronomy project, has been collecting data. Using a technique called interferometry, VERA collected data from telescopes across Japan and combined it with data from other ongoing projects to create the most accurate radio wave map to date.

By pointing to the position and speed of about 99 special points in our galaxy, Vera concluded that the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A at the center of our galaxy is actually 25,800 light-years from Earth – about 2,000 light-years. Close. We believed.

Furthermore, the new model calculates an Earth that is growing faster than we think. Older models achieved Earth speeds of up to 220 kilometers (136 miles) per second, orbiting the center of the galaxy. In Vera’s new model we move at a speed of 227 kilometers (141 miles) per second.

Not bad!

Vera now hopes to increase the accuracy of her models when she launches the EAVN. (East Asian VLBI Network) and is collecting data from large suites of radio telescopes located in Japan, Korea and China.