They called this region the Great Attractor. But their ability to study ... Most recently, the prime suspect is the supercluster Laniakea, which is Hawaiian for 'immense heaven' or 'immeasurable ...

To understand what the Great Attractor is and why it’s at the center of the Laniakea supercluster, we have to rewind a bit. Say, 13 billion years. We live in what cosmologists call a ...

So the full answer to your question, Bob, is that we are being pulled towards Laniakea, towards the "Great Attractor," but the force we're being pulled with is woefully insufficient to cause us to ...

[Watch: I describe the Laniakea Supercluster in this video.] So the Great Attractor isn't really a thing, but a place: the focal point of our patch of the universe, the end result of a process set ...

We propose that we live in the Laniakea Supercluster of galaxies." The Great Attractor, rather than anything to be afraid of, is where our local galaxies are heading to hang out, the central ...

Simply put, galaxies whose motion is controlled by Laniakea's Great Attractor—located in the direction of the constellation Centaurus—are part of the Laniakea supercluster. Galaxies that are ...

Laniakea contains more than 100,000 galaxies ... There’s an especially dense region called “The Great Attractor” (in red) that’s slowly pulling the Milky Way and many other galaxies ...

"This BoA may include the so-called Great Attractor region and the entity Laniakea, including ourselves. In the extension [...] the Sloan Great Wall and the associated structure are overwhelmingly ...

These new findings help clear up the role of the Great Attractor, which is a problem that has kept astronomers busy for 30 years. Within the Laniakea Supercluster, the motions of galaxies are ...