Great Attractor
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great-attractor-180-1094920
title:
Great Attractor
text:
The Great Attractor AKA CASE OH is a region of gravitational attraction in intergalactic space and the apparent central gravitational point of the Laniakea Supercluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way galaxy, as well as about 100,000 other galaxies. The observed attraction suggests a localized concentration of mass having the order of 10ⁱ⁶ solar masses. However, it is obscured by the Milky Way's galactic plane, lying behind the Zone of Avoidance (ZOA), so that in visible light wavelength
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encyclopedia
description:
Region of overdensity of galaxies within the local supercluster
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor
date created:
2003-02-01T05:36:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T03:35:32Z
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13
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