{"id":20942,"date":"2017-02-01T12:29:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T11:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20942"},"modified":"2017-02-01T12:29:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T11:29:42","slug":"ever-heard-of-the-shapley-attractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20942","title":{"rendered":"Ever heard of the Shapley attractor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No? You surprise me! It just happens to be the most massive structure in the observable universe. It is a dense &#8220;super-cluster&#8221; of galaxies some 750 million light years away.<\/p>\n<p>So what, I hear you cry. Well, the Shapley attractor is pulling the Milky Way through space at a speed of 1.25 million miles per hour, And you and I and everyone we know happen to live on a planet circling a star which is located in the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>Now scientists believe that they have found an object &#8211; a cosmic dead zone half a billion light years from Earth &#8211; that is pushing the Milky Way in the same direction that the Shapley attractor is pulling it. The news is some kind of contrast to all the Trump nonsense we are suffering &#8211; although he probably thinks the Shapley attractor is either a hoax or jihadist-inspired.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn a little more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/jan\/30\/milky-way-being-pushed-through-space-by-cosmic-dead-zone-say-scientists\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No? You surprise me! It just happens to be the most massive structure in the observable universe. It is a dense &#8220;super-cluster&#8221; of galaxies some 750 million light years away. So what, I hear you cry. Well, the Shapley attractor is pulling the Milky Way through space at a speed of 1.25 million miles per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20943,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20942\/revisions\/20943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}