The Ladder of Scale · structure
Great Attractor
Attractor · 100 million ly
- Coordinates
- 10h 31m 60.0s −46° 00′ 00.0″ · NAME Great Attractor via Sc
- RA (deg)
- 158
- Dec (deg)
- -46
- Within
- Laniakea Supercluster
- Distance (ly)
- 250000000
- Recognised
- 1986
- Population
- the focus of Laniakea's flow
- Size (ly)
- 100000000
- Kind
- Attractor
- Redshift
- 0.016
Notes
The gravitational low point Laniakea drains toward, lying behind the plane of the Milky Way — the 'Zone of Avoidance' — which is why it took infrared and X-ray surveys to find at all.
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