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The Great Attractor

10/20/2006 7:32 PM

There is a Great Attractor in our universe of incredible power.It is dragging our local cluster of galaxies , as well as others,toward it.It is not a black hole.It is more string-like, and more massive.

Any ideas what it may be?

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Re: The Great Attractor

10/20/2006 8:04 PM

Your imagination.

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10/20/2006 8:20 PM

Google: Great Attractor


The Virgo cluster lies some 50 million light years from Earth. Only the central region is shown above, containing two giant elliptical galaxies, M84 and M86. The visible part of the cluster is but a small portion of what seems to be out there. Nevertheless, the Virgo Cluster, along with several other large clusters, are in turn speeding towards a gigantic unseen mass named The Great Attractor.

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Re: The Great Attractor

10/21/2006 10:53 AM

Here is a link that shows the "great attractor" is probably just a giant cluster of galaxies.

Here is some of the explanation:

X-ray observations with the ROSAT satellite then revealed that Abell 3627, a previously known cluster of galaxies, was much more massive than originally suspected, containing many more galaxies. Optical astronomers had missed a great number of galaxies, because of the obscuration, but with hindsight (and with better observations), could spot many more galaxies. It is now thought that the Great Attractor is probably a supercluster, with Abell 3627 near its center.

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Re: The Great Attractor

10/21/2006 11:00 AM

Thanks for shedding a little light(x-ray)on the subject!

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