galaxy than previously thought.The National Observatory of Japan's astronomy project VERA has discovered that the centre of the Milky Way, and the black hole that sits there, is located 25,800 light-years from Earth – closer than the official value of 27,700 light-years adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1985.Space experts also say our solar system is travelling through space a lot faster than previously thought 227 kilometres per second, compared with the official value of 220 kilometres per second.VERA started in 2000 to map three-dimensional velocity and spatial structures in the Milky Way using a technique known as interferometry to combine data from radio telescopes scattered across Japan in order to achieve the same.
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