the great attractor region

[budcamp]

Can onyone tell me what the great attractor is?

[PhysBrain]

A simple google search for "great attractor" will turn up about 3000 hits. Additional search terms like Abell or Centaurus, will help narrow this down to mostly astronomy related entries. A brief description can be found at this NASA Q&A site:

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/990924a.html