Great Attractor

central gravitational point of

Laniakea Supercluster

location

It [Great Attractor] is situated at a distance of somewhere between 150 and 250 Mly (million light-years) (47–79 Mpc), the larger being the most recent estimate, away from the Milky Way, in the direction of the constellations Triangulum Australe (The Southern Triangle) and Norma (The Carpenter’s Square).

Milky Way

Through a series of peculiar velocity tests, astrophysicists found that the Milky Way was moving in the direction of the constellation of Centaurus at about 600 km/s.

patch

A busy patch of the Great Attractor (esahubble.org)

path on GitHub

https://github.com/davepinch/pinchy.cc/blob/master/content/topics/astronomy/objects/great-attractor/great-attractor.md

random

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tags

gravitational point

video

The Great Attractor (youtube.com) No matter where you are, you are always moving. The Earth orbits the sun, and the sun moves round the galaxy. But what is it that makes the galaxy move? That is going to be our topic today. Everything in our local galaxy supercluster, Laniakea, is being dragged towards a very high concentration of mass hidden behind the plane of our galaxy. It has all the ingredients for an epic space mystery, it is the Great Attractor.

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q656857

Wikipedia

Great Attractor (Wikipedia) The Great Attractor is a purported gravitational attraction in intergalactic space and the apparent central gravitational point of the Laniakea Supercluster of galaxies. This supercluster contains the Milky Way galaxy, as well as about 100,000 other galaxies.