Earth just got 2,000 light-years closer to Milky Way's supermassive black hole - CNET

Earth is a little closer to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way than we believed.

At the center of the our galaxy there's a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*.

By pinpointing the location and velocity of around 99 specific points in our galaxy, VERA has concluded that the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A, at the center of our galaxy, is actually 25,800 light-years from Earth -- almost 2,000 light-years closer than what we previously believed. .

VERA is now hoping to increase the accuracy of its model by increasing the amount of points it's gathering data from by expanding into EAVN (East Asian VLBI Network) and gathering data from a larger suite of radio telescopes located throughout Japan, Korea and China. .