Shapley Supercluster

Found a shapely theory: The Seven Samurai’s
Great Attractor was replaced by the more
massive Shapley Supercluster

In 2005 the X ray CIZA survey, Clusters in the Zone
of Avoidance, revealed the Milky Way is not drawn
towards the Great Attractor

But to a more massive region behind it, The Shapley
Supercluster, four times the distance to the Great
Attractor, 500 million light-years away

The CIZA team demoted the Samurai’s Great
Attractor to only a tenth of the mass
originally estimated

I feel quite deflated, though Shaply Super
is shapely enough in theory…


(IFA press release; Maggie McKee, New Scientist,
December 15, 2005; Kocevski and Ebeling, 2005;
and Kocevski et al, 2005).


http://www.solstation.com/x-objects/greatatt.htm