

There’s A Giant Magnet In Space Pulling Our Galaxy Closer To The Zone Of Avoidance, But No One Knows How To Explain It

An immense gravitational anomaly, dubbed the Great Attractor, is pulling the Milky Way and thousands of other galaxies toward a specific point in intergalactic space. Our entire local supercluster is hurtling in that direction at a speed of more than two million kilometers per hour. A primary challenge in identifying the source of this force is its position directly behind the gas and dust of our own galactic plane, an area known as the Zone of Avoidance, which blocks most observation. Although later surveys using X-ray and radio wavelengths have revealed massive galaxy clusters in that region, their combined mass does not seem sufficient to fully explain the tremendous gravitational pull being exerted on our corner of the universe.