Great Attractor
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| definition | A hypothesized large concentration of mass (about 10^16 solar masses), some hundred million light-years from Earth, in the direction of the Centaurus supercluster, that seems to be affecting the motions of many nearby galaxies by virtue of its gravity. | |||||||||||
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| contributor | AAS_Frey.Katie original | |||||||||||