Monday, November 30, 2020

Earth faster, closer to black hole, in new map of galaxy

Earth 'just got' 7 km/s faster and about 2000 light-years closer to the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. But don't worry, this doesn't mean that our planet is critical. Instead the changes are results of a better model of the Milky Way Galaxy based on new observation data, including a catalog of objects observed over the course of more than 15 years.

from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/2JqzRuP

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