2024-05-03 21:34:20
Space scientists and astrophysicists are trying, in various ways, to investigate the reason behind the pull of our galaxy, the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies, towards something unknown, which has pulled these galaxies off course and towards a region, at a speed exceeding one million. miles per hour, which is the region they called “the great attractor.”
Galaxies contain enormous gatherings of billions of stars, planets and moons, as well as asteroids and meteorites. They also contain cosmic dust and dark matter interspersed with magnetic fields. The size of galaxies and the number of stars they contain vary from a few thousand dwarfs. galaxies with a hundred thousand billion stars in giant galaxies, all of which vary in size. Its orbit is around the center of gravity of the galaxy.
Cloudy galaxies
It is known that the Earth is currently rotating around its axis at a speed of regarding 1,000 miles per hour (regarding 1,600 kilometers per hour). According to the American site NPR, this rotation is at the origin of the existence of days. As Earth and the other planets in our solar system orbit the sun, our planet does so at a speed of regarding 67,000 miles (regarding 108,000 kilometers per hour), which creates years.
In the 1970s, astrophysicists noticed that something was wrong with our own group of galaxies, or local group: the entire group of nearby galaxies was off course, more than a million kilometers per hour. hour, towards something we mightn’t see.
Billions of galaxies
There were thought to be regarding 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe, but recent scientific discoveries suggest that there are several billion galaxies, located at distances of up to millions of parsecs, depending on mass and the size of the galaxy.
The Earth, Sun, and the rest of our solar system are known to orbit the center of the Milky Way at a speed of more than 500,000 miles per hour (828,000 kilometers per hour). On top of all this, the entire universe is moving towards outward expansion all the time without interruption.
The great attractor
Scientists still don’t know exactly why and how the Milky Way and its neighboring galaxies veered off course, but there have been several candidates over the past few decades. More recently, the main suspect has been the Laniakea supercluster. means… Hawaiian “immense paradise” or “immeasurable paradise”.
Scientists called this mysterious region the “Great Attractor,” but their ability to study it was limited, and computational astrophysicist Jorge Moreno attributed this to the fact that the Milky Way contains millions and millions of stars and lots of dust. , which obscures everything. the information they are trying to reach means that our galaxy is blocking the great attractor.
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