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Great Attractor

A region of immense gravitational pull located approximately 250 million light-years from Earth. It acts as the gravitational center of the Laniakea Supercluster. Its mass, estimated at tens of thousands of times that of the Milky Way, causes a measurable deviation in the expansion of the universe for all galaxies in our local neighbourhood. It remains difficult to study because it is obscured by the gas and dust of our own galactic plane.

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