The Great Attractor: The Most Mysterious Force in the Universe

#GreatAttractor #Laniakea #cosmology You Have Never Been Still — Something Has Been Dragging The Milky Way Since Before Earth Existed You are not standing still. At least, not in any sense that survives contact with the data. Sit motionless for ten seconds and you still cross about 6,000 kilometres, because the entire Milky Way and its 400 billion stars are being pulled through space at over 2 million kilometres per hour toward one point in the southern sky. Astronomers have measured that fall since the 1970s. In the 1980s the team nicknamed the Seven Samurai mapped 400 galaxies and found them flowing together like leaves in a river. X-ray surveys later pulled a giant out of the haze — the Norma Cluster — and then the mass refused to add up. Most of the pull is dark matter, invisible at every wavelength we have. This is not conspiracy. It is not doom. It is the published record, without the softening layer most press releases apply. By the end of this video you will understand why the thing steering our galaxy hides in the one direction we cannot look, why 100,000 galaxies all drain toward the same point, and why we will fall toward it forever and never arrive. #GreatAttractor #Laniakea #DarkMatter #ZoneOfAvoidance #Cosmology