X-Ray Mapping Reveals Clues About the "Great Attractor"
The Milky Way is moving toward the constellation Centaurus at a velocity of 1.4 Million mph. The motion appears to be due to the gravitational pull of a large, but unobservable, concentration of matter dubbed the "Great Attractor" - a supercluster (or group of clusters of galaxies) estimated to contain mass equivalent to more than 10 Million Billion Suns. Until now, efforts to find the Great Attractor have been hampered by its location in an area behind the plane of the Milky Way where gas and dust within our galaxy block much of the visible light. University of Hawaii astronomers are now using X-Rays to map this region and are arriving at some very surprising conclusions.
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Now although we are moving towards Centaurus, I thought everything was headed toward Hydra?<br><br>Is the greater attractor also moving in that general direction?<br><br><br><br>PS. Somebody's always yanking my chain, and now I know it doesn't end on a cosmic scale.
I red about it, that all the galaxies came together somewhere in the Universe.<br><br>And they called it the chinese wall, so will this be it!?<br><br>
<br>Jos:<br><br>Yes. Good point.<br><br>I think what you are referring to is the "Great Wall," which I believe is a much larger structure than the "Great Attractor" referenced in this posting. The Great Attractor is more closely associated with our Local Group of Galaxies.<br><br>However, I believe these two entities are similar in many ways.<br><br>Here is some more info from wikipedia on the "Great Wall"<br><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_%28astronomy%29<br><br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Guy<br><br>---------------------------------------<br>jos Lassche said:<br><br>I red about it, that all the galaxies came together somewhere in the Universe.<br><br>And they called it the chinese wall, so will this be it!?<br>
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