What other method can I use to make spaces in this JFrame?

Question

I used a borderLayout, added a JLabel in north then added a jpanel into the center with a grid layout (8,1) and then added two empty panels to make the extra spaces on the far left and right. So my question, is there another way to make these spaces?

Frame I want

Frame I made

Comments

I don't know man!

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I don't see the images. I am not sure if it is just me or the images (screenshots) are missing?