Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Virgo Supercluster
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Large-scale dynamics=== Since the late 1980s it has been apparent that not only the [[Local Group]], but all matter out to a distance of at least 50 [[Parsec|Mpc]] is experiencing a bulk flow on the order of 600 km/s in the direction of the [[Norma Cluster| Norma Cluster (Abell 3627)]].<ref name="plionis91"> {{cite journal | author = Plionis, Manolis | author2 = Valdarnini, Riccardo | title = Evidence for large-scale structure on scales about 300/h MPC | journal = Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | date = March 1991 | volume = 249 | pages = 46β61 | bibcode = 1991MNRAS.249...46P | doi =10.1093/mnras/249.1.46 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Lynden-Bell et al. (1988) dubbed the cause of this the "[[Great Attractor]]". The Great Attractor is now understood to be the center of mass of an even larger structure of galaxy clusters, dubbed "[[Laniakea Supercluster|Laniakea]]", which includes the Virgo Supercluster (including the Local Group) as well as the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster, the Pavo-Indus Supercluster, and the Fornax Group. The Great Attractor, together with the entire supercluster, is found to be moving toward [[Shapley Supercluster]], with center of [[Shapley Attractor]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.universetoday.com/113150/what-is-the-great-attractor/|title = What is the Great Attractor?|date = 14 July 2014}}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)