The Ladder of Scale · structure
Dipole Repeller
Attractor · 300 million ly
- Within
- —
- Distance (ly)
- 800000000
- Recognised
- 2017
- Population
- an absence of galaxies
- Size (ly)
- 300000000
- Kind
- Attractor
Notes
Not a thing but the lack of one: an underdense region on the opposite side of the sky from the Great Attractor, pushing us away as effectively as the Attractor pulls. Our motion relative to the microwave background is the sum of the two.
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