Very interested to read about "the great attractor". I was just about to post a question which is partially answered by that notion. I was trying to think how I'd describe red shift etc... so you have saved me a lot of time.

My question (now incorporating the great attractor) is:

If our galaxy - along with everything else, is headed towards the great attractor - are there any objects/galaxies which can be detected coming towards it from "the other side".

Imagine this in two dimensions:
the great attractor is in the centre of an imaginary bicycle wheel (a really large one obviously)
galaxies are travelling towards the centre - down the spokes
so some galaxies from the other side of the hub would be travelling towards us

So are objects converging? :huh: – like in the bicycle wheel
Or diverging? :unsure: – everything moving further away from everything else (which I thought red shift observations had concluded was the case)

I appreciate that the answer may lie with relativity and the expansion of space etc so the answer may be “neither”

But

Can the observations you mentioned by "the seven samurai" detect any convergence or divergence?

Is there only one attractor in the universe?

Questions, questions, so many questions :blink:

Any thoughts?