The Invisible Force is Pulling the Milky Way Galaxy

We may not feel it, but our Milky Way galaxy is moving through space at a speed of over two million kilometers per hour. According to a report by AFP, on Monday, a group of astronomers stated that the discovery of a deep void in space has helped better understand how the Milky Way galaxy moves and its speed. This group of astronomers wrote in an article in Nature Astronomy: 'The Earth beneath our feet is stable, but the small human habitat in a corner of space is influenced by various forces and energies.' The Earth rotates on its axis at a speed of 1,600 kilometers per hour and orbits the Sun at a speed of about 100,000 kilometers. The Sun also moves around the center of our galaxy at a speed of about 850,000 kilometers, moving through space at a dizzying pace. Scientists have always suspected that a very dense part of space, with its immense gravitational force, pulls the Milky Way towards it. In the 1980s, it was believed that this region of space, known as the 'Great Attractor,' which includes several large galaxies, is about 150 million light-years away from the Milky Way. However, Daniel Pomard, one of the authors of the new scientific paper and a member of the French Atomic Energy Commission and Alternative Energies, says: 'The direction assigned to this gravitational force was not entirely accurate.' Therefore, astronomers focused on another region of space about 600 million light-years farther than the 'Great Attractor,' which encompasses a decade of galaxies and is called the 'Shapley Concentration.' However, examining this part of space did not fully explain the speed and direction of the Milky Way's movement. On Monday, Daniel Pomard and his colleagues announced that they had found the missing link: our galaxy is not only being attracted but is also being repelled. They discovered a large, unknown, and empty area of space that they believe repels the Milky Way and its neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, with its force. They named this area the 'Bipolar Repeller.' Yehuda Hoffman, another member of this scientific team, said: 'Our galaxy is not only pulled towards the Great Attractor but is also repelled by the recently discovered Bipolar Repeller. Thus, it has been established that both gravitational and repulsive forces are equally important in determining the position of our galaxy.