The Great Attractor: A Mysterious Pull in Space

The Great Attractor is a mysterious gravitational anomaly pulling galaxies toward it.
It lies about 150–250 million light-years away in the direction of the Centaurus constellation.
Our Milky Way, along with thousands of galaxies, is drifting toward it at over 300 miles per second.
The Great Attractor is hidden behind the “Zone of Avoidance,” obscured by the Milky Way’s dust.
It may be the core of the Laniakea Supercluster, our galaxy’s larger cosmic neighborhood.
Scientists believe its pull comes from an enormous concentration of mass, including dark matter.
The Hydra–Centaurus Supercluster appears to be at the heart of this attraction.
Observations suggest galaxies aren’t just moving randomly—they’re flowing toward this region.
Despite its name, the Great Attractor is not a single object but a massive region of space.
Studying it helps astronomers map the hidden large-scale structure of the universe.