Great Attractor

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• Great Attractor — NOTOC The Great Attractor is a gravity anomaly in intergalactic space within the range of the Centaurus Supercluster that reveals the existence of a localised concentration of mass equivalent to tens of thousands of Milky Ways, observable by its… …   Wikipedia

• Great Attractor — a vast concentration of matter whose gravitational pull alters the direction and speed of the Milky Way and other galaxies as they spread apart in the expanding universe posited by the big bang theory. [1985 90] * * * Proposed concentration of… …   Universalium

• Great Attractor — Great′ Attrac′tor n. astron. a vast concentration of matter whose gravitational pull alters the direction and speed of the Milky Way and other galaxies as they spread apart in the expanding universe posited by the big bang theory • Etymology:… …   From formal English to slang

• Great attractor — Der Große Attraktor ist ein sogenanntes Filament und eine der massereichsten bekannten Strukturen im Universum. Er hat eine Masse in der Größenordnung von 10 Billiarden Sonnenmassen (1016 M☉) und ist etwa 150 bis 250 Millionen Lichtjahre von der… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Great Attractor — noun a massive grouping of galaxies in the direction of Centaurus and Hydra whose gravitational attraction is believed to cause deviations in the paths of other galaxies • Hypernyms: ↑galaxy, ↑extragalactic nebula …   Useful english dictionary

• great — greatness, n. /grayt/, adj., greater, greatest, adv., n., pl. greats, (esp. collectively) great, interj. adj. 1. unusually or comparatively large in size or dimensions: A great fire destroyed nearly half the city …   Universalium

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• Gary A. Wegner — Gary Alan Wegner (born Seattle, Washington on December 26, 1944) is an American astronomer, the endowed Leed 49 Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College, and recipient of the Alexander Von Humboldt Prize. Wegner was also a member… …   Wikipedia

• Large-scale structure of the cosmos — In physical cosmology, the term large scale structure refers to the characterization of observable distributions of matter and light on the largest scales (typically on the order of billions of light years). Sky surveys and mappings of the… …   Wikipedia

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