Milky Way galaxy being pushed across universe

[Judi Lynn]

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?

More:
http://www.news4jax.com/news/international/milky-way-galaxy-being-pushed-across-universe

[Throck]

1. And just how do we know it's being pushed?

The universe sucks right now.

[packman]

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]

4. Dipole Repeller

[trotsky]

5. Subatomic particles everywhere take offense at that comparison. n/t

[byronius]

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.