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Related: About this forumMilky Way galaxy being pushed across universe
Dipole Repeller helping galaxy on journey
By ASHLEY STRICKLAND , CNN
Posted: 5:41 PM, January 31, 2017
Updated: 6:08 PM, January 31, 2017
(CNN) - Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is being pushed across the universe by a large unseen force, according to new research. Although it may not seem like a friendly gesture, the newly discovered Dipole Repeller is actually helping our galaxy on its journey across the expanding universe.
Researchers have known that the galaxy was moving at a relative speed for the past 30 years, but they didn't know why.
"Now we find an emptiness in exactly the opposite direction, which provides a 'push' in the sense of a lack of pull," said Brent Tully, one of the study authors and an astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu. "In a tug-of-war, if there are more people at one end, then the flow will be toward them and away from the weaker side."
What's that? You didn't realize our home galaxy was moving?
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Milky Way galaxy being pushed across universe (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jan 2017
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Throck
(2,520 posts)1. And just how do we know it's being pushed?
The universe sucks right now.
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packman
(16,296 posts)3. You know, I've been feeling that for the past several days
A strange pushing - Wonder if we're going towards something or away from something?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)4. Dipole Repeller
trotsky
(49,533 posts)5. Subatomic particles everywhere take offense at that comparison. n/t
byronius
(7,403 posts)6. And Andromeda is moving toward us at a hundred kilometers per second.
Only five billion years until it smacks us in the face.
Just read Krauss's 'Atom'. My god, what a great book.