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Article: 'GREAT ATTRACTOR' MAY BE SNARING GALAXIES.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 12, 1990
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Byline: Lee Dye Los Angeles Times
Scientists said Thursday that they had proved that a mysterious gravitational field is forcing our galaxy to streak toward a distant point in the southern sky at nearly 400 miles per second.
The existence of the "Great Attractor" was first postulated in 1987 by astronomers Alan Dressler of the Carnegie Institution and Sandra Faber of the University of California, Santa Cruz, along with five colleagues who have been branded the "Seven Samurai" because of their slashing attack on conventional theory.
The controversial announcement immediately plunged the scientists into debate with many of their colleagues who ...