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Jul 5, 2020

This new, super-accurate way to pinpoint our solar system’s center may help spot monster black hole crashes

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

Astronomers have found a way to pinpoint our solar system’s center of mass to within a mere 330 feet (100 meters), a recent study reports.

Such precision — equivalent to the width of a human hair on the scale of a football field — could substantially aid the search for powerful gravitational waves that warp our Milky Way galaxy, study team members said.

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