Something Strange Has Been Pulling Our Sun at Over 1,000,000 Miles/Hour

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In the 1970's, scientists produced a detailed map of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the leftover radiation from the Big Bang. What we observed shocked everyone:

Scientists found that one side of the Milky Way was slightly warmer than the other. This anomaly in an otherwise uniform universe, revealed a temperature difference of less than one one-hundredth of a degree Fahrenheit. This subtle variation indicated that our galaxy was moving at some 600 kilometres per second toward the Centaurus constellation.

Then, in the 1980s, the mystery grew more when we found that only the the Milky Way, but hundreds of other galaxies were also being pulled towards a specific region in space, and it was not towards the constellation of Centaurus, no.

Further discoveries showed that everything within hundreds of millions of light years of us, was getting pulled towards this mysterious giant magnet, which, calculations suggest, to be more than 10 million billion times the mass of our Sun.

We named it the Great Attractor!

[UltraDoug]

ohhh Ohhh yes
It’s the great
Aaaaatractor 🎤🎹

[thekingofmojacar]

In the universe, everything is always on a journey.
Just like our life, which is on our life's journey.
Our galaxy Milky Way, on the journey to a specific point in space, the big attractor,
but we´ll never reach it. So it's a never-ending journey, crazy, isn't it?

[mrbr]

The Universe is growing into? We just don't know 99.999% of what's really going on. But it's great that some folks can make a living speculating about it.

[yowzephyr]

It sucks that we can't figure out how gravity sucks.

[thomasgreenfoto]

Understanding gravity is not the problem. Not understanding the Electric Universse is the problem.

[HVYMTL]

Off who's course? Yours? Theirs? they/them? 😂😂😂😂

[VanceGibson-FUcia]

The Cookie Monster gonna eat all the stars and planets.

[donaldmaxie]

How can you determine we are going off course without knowing what our course is?

[YiOughta]

Explore the electric universe theory rather than standard models. It just makes sense to consider that electromagnetic forces that are orders of magnitude greater than gravity.

[kistonkiston]

Gravity is merely a stubborn illusion - Albert Einstein

[michaelmallal]

It has taken thousands of years to work out this astronomical knowledge.

[galenhaugh]

The universe decided?... I didn't know the universe was sentient!!

[JohnSmith-mfdh]

Yes, it called the Universe, everything attracts everything... Also, how do you know "its course"... There's no such thing as "course" when gravity is involved.

[gaminawulfsdottir]

"Off course" implies that it has a destination in mind.

[thesink]

Cant see it from my house, so not worried about 😅😅 . Before we even get close this rock probably won't exist as we know it now !!

[Ron-ds]

Since the first time I heard Einstein say it I have always thought that he was wrong....

God does play dice.

[WTH]

First there was ... The Pretty Good Attractor
Then came The Great Attractor,
Followed by the Greater Attractor, Greater Greater Attractor, a region called Suzy, and the horse you rode in on.

[Kel-dv]

I think it's cute when the mockingbirds just repeat what they were told, instead of researching the reason why there are so many unproven, unfalsifiable theories that are as outdated as the textbooks academia wants you to memorize and never question.

[davidwalker]

How does anyone know what the sun's course actually is

[JasonRule-]

Okay, since most of your audience is American why don't you just go ahead and convert that from meters and kilometers into yards and miles.