Great Attractor
An image taken by the European Southern Observatory looking in the direction of the Great Attractor.
The Great Attractor is far bigger than a galaxy. In the terminology of astronomers, there are clusters of galaxies containing maybe hundreds of galaxies, and superclusters containing many clusters.
Great Attractor - A great concentration of mass toward which everything in our part of the universe apparently is being pulled
Great Circle - A circle that bisects a sphere. The celestial equator and ecliptic are examples of great circles ...
Great Attractor
A hypothesized large mass, some hundred million light years from earth, that seems to be affecting the motions of many nearby galaxies by virtue of its gravity.
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GREAT ATTRACTOR
The Great Attractor is a giant group of roughly 100,000 galaxies beyond our Local Group of galaxies. No one has yet seen the galaxies of the Great Attractor, but the effect on nearby galaxy clusters has been detected.
GREAT ATTRACTOR
The Great Attractor is a giant group of roughly 100,000 galaxies beyond our . No one has yet seen the of the Great Attractor, but the effect on nearby galaxy clusters has been detected.
Great Attractor
The Great Attractor is a gravity anomaly in intergalactic space within the range of the Centaurus Supercluster that reveals the existence of a localised concentration of mass equivalent to tens of thousands of Milky Ways, ...
The Great Attractor, discovered in 1986, lies at a distance of between 150 million and 250 million light-years (250 million is the most recent estimate), in the direction of the Hydra and Centaurus constellations.
The Great Attractor lies at a distance of somewhere between 150 and 250 megalight-years (the latter being the most recent estimate).
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This eventually turned into an industry, with the 7 Samurai announcing a "Great Attractor" off in Centaurus (l=299°, b=-11°) that messes up the velocity field out to about 3000 km/s (Lynden-Bell et al. 1987 ApJLett 313, L37).
Astronomers have postulated a Great Attractor - a hypothetical concentration of matter with a mass of more than 1016 solar masses, ...
In the local Universe, there are two large-scale structures of particular importance: the Great Wall and the Great Attractor.
A more important contribution may come from the mass of a "Great Attractor" at a distance of 108 million light-years connected to the Local Supercluster, ...
The Local Supercluster, often called the Virgo Supercluster, is the home of both Earth and the Milky Way Galaxy, along with a Large Structure called the Great Attractor.
The Local Supercluster is measured to be over 80 million lightyears across.
Some people call it The Great Attractor, although we now know that the pull is probably not due to one group of galaxies but many. Still the extra gravity in this direction pulls the Milky Way (and many neighbor galaxies) in that direction.
Local flows result from large-scale gravitational effects. For example, the Local Group of galaxies (including the Milky Way) has a local flow of about 600 km/s in the direction of the superclusters of galaxies that make up the Great Attractor in ...
(Sec. 25.5) Furthermore, optical and infrared observations of the overall motion of galaxies in the local supercluster suggest the presence of a nearby huge accumulation of mass known as the Great Attractor, ...
Terlevich, and Gary Wegner claim that a large group of galaxies within about 200 million light years of the Milky Way are moving together towards the "Great Attractor in the direction of the Hydra and Centaurus, ...
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