The Great Attractor

No matter where you are, you are always moving. The Earth orbits the sun, while the sun moves round the galaxy. But what makes the galaxy move? That is the topic of our video today. Everything in our local galaxy supercluster, Laniakea, is being dragged towards a high concentration of mass obscured by the opaque clouds of our galaxy, but what is it? It has all the ingredients for an epic cosmic mystery, the mystery of the Great Attractor.

Background Songs by CO.AG Music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA

Transcending Ambient Chill Out Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAp5ecwlU7MThe Deep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9TJrLeqnhw

All other tracks are from the YouTube Audio Library

CHAPTERS:

00:00: Introduction

02:13: Galaxies

04:04: Our Local Universe

06:56: The Laniakea Supercluster

09:00: The Great Attractor

10:03: The Zone of Avoidance

11:45: History of Great Attractor Observations

13:56: Surveying the Great Attractor Region

18:39: Dark Flow

20:27: The Dipole Repeller

22:16: CIZA Search

23:37: The Shapley Supercluster

26:03: The Vela Supercluster

27:30: A Mystery Solved?