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To: MtnClimber
“Since this region is relatively empty of matter, it is exerting a repelling effect on the Local Group of galaxies...”

As opposed to the “Great Attractor”? I guess that’s located in the other direction.

From Wiki...

The Great Attractor is a gravitational anomaly in intergalactic space at the center of the Laniakea Supercluster that reveals the existence of a localised concentration of mass tens of thousands of times more massive than the Milky Way. This mass is observable by its effect on the motion of galaxies and their associated clusters over a region hundreds of millions of light-years across. The Great Attractor is moving towards the Shapley Supercluster.[1]

These galaxies are all redshifted, in accordance with the Hubble Flow, indicating that they are receding relative to us and to each other, but the variations in their redshift are sufficient to reveal the existence of the anomaly. The variations in their redshifts are known as peculiar velocities, and cover a range from about +700 km/s to -700 km/s, depending on the angular deviation from the direction to the Great Attractor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor

7 posted on 01/31/2017 5:06:07 PM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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To: ETL

There are places in space where there are many things and there are places in space where there are no things.

Just as there are places in the garden with many plants and places where nothing has been planted yet.

32 posted on 01/31/2017 5:36:46 PM PST by TigersEye (Winning. Winning winning winning every day!!!)
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