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Earth is 2,000 light years closer to supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy than we thought
By Katie Hunt, CNN
Updated 12:01 PM EST, Fri November 27, 2020

(CNN)A new map of the Milky Way by Japanese space experts has put Earth 2,000 light years closer to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

This map has suggested that the center of the Milky Way, and the black hole which sits there, is located 25,800 light-years from Earth. This is closer than the official value of 27,700 light-years adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1985, the National Observatory of Japan said.

What's more, according to the map, our solar system is traveling at 227 kilometers per second as it orbits around the galactic center -- this is faster than the official value of 220 kilometers per second, the release added.

Read more @ https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/27/world/earth-supermassive-black-hole-milky-way-scn/index.html

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Damn!

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Does This Count The One In My Basement?

I probably shouldn't have mentioned that, I guess?
Now, everyone is going to want to see it!
But, they can't.

[nocoincidences]

3. Double day-um!!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

4. Well, that sucks big-time.

It also calls for a black hole Friday sale!........


KY......... ..........

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. Circling the drain.

Makes me not want to bother getting up in the morning. I mean, why bother?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. When the last black hole sucks in the next-to-last black hole, do we get a new Big Bang?

When the whole universe is a black hole, can an explosion be far behind?

[marie999]

7. Our universe is inside of a black hole that exists in another universe.

And every black hole in our universe contains a new universe. And every black hole in these universes contains a new universe and on and on and on.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. Probably more mundane than that, but for 2020 it could be a giant zombie murder hornet

A black hole is the seed in the center of every galaxy. It drives the spin and collection. It's also the seed of the eventual destruction of the galaxy it forms.

[Tanuki]

10. It's turtles, all the way down!

?w=458

[jeffreyi]

13. Yep.

[misanthrope]

18. That's an unlikely occurrence

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. Sorry, can't read the microscopic print in the big black screen

I made it about 15 seconds in.

[aidbo]

9. This really just means that our estimate..

..of how close we are to the center of our galaxy was off by about 7%. This is scientifically significant, in that it refines our knowledge about our universe. But it really doesn’t change anything.

[ornotna]

11. Crap!

I haven't been preparing for this. Too soooooon!

[safeinOhio]

12. Might explain why my Daily Horoscope has

never been correct.

[jeffreyi]

14. Yeah, did the astrologers

Predict anything from 2020?

[Klaralven]

15. Since solar system is traveling at 227 km/sec, the earths "orbit" is actually a very elongated helix

[chriscan64]

20. This is true, but there is more.

The Milky Way and surrounding galaxies are all moving at 600 km per second toward something they call the "Great Attractor". They are not sure exactly what it is, only that its existence is implied by the motion itself. It is separate from the motion away from other galaxies due to the expansion of the universe.

So to review all of one person's movements, there is the crawling around a small area of the Earth's surface, which spins around its center with the planet going around the Sun, which goes around the galaxy which is hauling ass toward who knows where.

[judeling]

16. I knew we were drifting to far to the right

[roamer65]

17. Flush twice.

It’s still a long way to galactic center.