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Great Attractor Mass-Concentration Explanation

The consensus explanation for the Great Attractor: a genuine supercluster-scale concentration of galaxies, anchored near the Norma Cluster, whose ordinary gravity produces the measured galaxy streaming motion, obscured from easy observation only by the Milky Way's own Zone of Avoidance.

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  • "Dark Flow" Claim

    Great Attractor Mass-Concentration Explanation contradicts "Dark Flow" Claim — The well-measured, modest regional pull the Great Attractor explanation describes is a much better-supported claim than dark flow's unconfirmed universe-scale motion.

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  • Great Attractor

    Great Attractor Mass-Concentration Explanation attempts to explain Great Attractor.

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What Is the Great Attractor, and Why Can't We See It Directly?

What the Great Attractor is: the mass concentration pulling our galaxy off course, why the Milky Way's own disc hides it, and how it differs from 'dark flow'.