Looking Towards the Great Attractor
This image shows the central region of the Great Attractor at the original resolution of the WFI. Note the strong warping of the galaxy above the center, which may be caused by gravitational interaction with one or both of the bright galaxies that are seen above and below it.
The Great Attractor is a gravity anomaly in intergalactic space within the vicinity of the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster at the center of the Laniakea Supercluster that reveals the existence of a localized concentration of mass tens of thousands of times more massive than the Milky Way. This mass is observable by its effect on the motion of galaxies and their associated clusters over a region hundreds of millions of light-years across.
Credit: ESA/ESO