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Scientists found the center of the Solar System, and it's not where you think - Inverse

Scientists found the center of the Solar System, and it's not where you think - Inverse

Scientists found the center of the Solar System, and it's not where you think - Inverse
Jul 06, 2020 44 secs

And for the first time, a team of astronomers has pinpointed the center of the entire Solar System down to within 100 meters, the most precise calculation yet.

Their findings are detailed in a study published in April in The Astrophysical Journal, and will help astronomers in their quest to hunt for gravitational waves given off in the universe by objects such as supermassive black holes.

The entire Solar System, including the Sun, has a barycenter, or a common center of mass of all of the Solar System's objects, around which they orbit.

Using these signals, the team of astronomers was able to more accurately measure Earth's distance from other objects in the Solar System, including the barycenter.

Now that astronomers have a more accurate measurement of where the barycenter of the Solar System lies, they can in turn make much more accurate detections of low-frequency gravitational waves

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