Why We Can Never Escape the Great Attractor
🌌 "The Milky Way is moving at 1.3 million miles per hour—and we have no idea what's pulling us."A gravitational anomaly discovered in 1986, the Great Attractor lies 150–250 million light-years away in the direction of Centaurus and Hydra [citation:7]. It's the gravitational center of the Laniakea Supercluster, pulling our galaxy and 100,000 others toward it at 600 km/s [citation:1][citation:7][citation:13]. Yet its exact nature remains unknown—hidden behind the Zone of Avoidance, a dense region of Milky Way dust that obscures our view [citation:8][citation:13]. We can't see it. We can't…
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