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The Milky Way is pulled towards a vast gravitational feature

A massive concentration of galaxy clusters draws home galaxy at high speed

The Great Attractor is a diffuse gravitational anomaly located roughly 220 million light-years away in the direction of the Centaurus cluster. Packing the mass of tens of thousands of Milky Ways, its gravitational field pulls our galaxy and hundreds of nearby galaxy clusters towards it at 600 kilometres per second.

Globular Clusters around Milky Way (2019-16-4369) — NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) · Public domain · source

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: A massive concentration of galaxy clusters draws home galaxy at high speed. The figure is taken from ESA, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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