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Great Attractor

Definition: Great Attractor

Great Attractor

Noun

1. A massive grouping of galaxies in the direction of Centaurus and Hydra whose gravitational attraction is believed to cause deviations in the paths of other galaxies.

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Commercial Usage: Great Attractor

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Specialty Definition: Great Attractor

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

At the centre of the local supercluster there is a gravitational anomaly, known as the Great Attractor, which is drawing in galaxies over a region hundreds of millions of light years across. These galaxies are all redshifted, in accordance with the 'Hubble flow', as if they were receding from us and from each other, but the variations in their redshift are sufficient to reveal the existence of a concentration of mass equivalent to tens of thousands of galaxies.

The Great Attractor, discovered in 1986, lies at a distance of between 150 million and 250 million light years (250 million is the most recent estimate), in the direction of the Hydra and Centaurus constellations. In its vicinity there is a preponderance of large old galaxies, many of which are colliding with their neighbours, and/or radiating large amounts of radio waves.

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Modern Translations: Great Attractor

Language Translations for "Great Attractor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

grand attracteur. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eatgray attractoray

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Anagrams: Great Attractor

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-g-o-r-r-r-t-t-t-t"

-5 letters: attractor, greatcoat, retractor.

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Alternative Orthography: Great Attractor


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 72 65 61 74      41 74 74 72 61 63 74 6F 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 00100000 01000001 01110100 01110100 01110010 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0072 0065 0061 0074      0041 0074 0074 0072 0061 0063 0074 006F 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41847167862358686846769868184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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