All the universe is full of countless different strange objects that interact with their surroundings in different ways. When you average out the behavior of everything in it the layout is fairly predictable with most matter moving in an expansive direction.
There's one region though that we simply don't understand but it could be the key to unlocking a much deeper knowledge of the universe and the processes that take place within it known as the Great Attractor. It's a huge gravitational anomaly that's around 200 million light years away from the milky way galaxy rather than affecting the orbit of the planets or stars.
The great attractor exerts its influence on much larger objects and is believed to be the central point of the Lanayakea Galaxy supercluster. Which contains the milky way along with up to ten thousand other similarly sized galaxies the great attractor is itself moving towards the nearby shapley supercluster one of the biggest mysteries in space.
At the moment is what could the great attractor possibly contain that is able to affect the movement of huge galaxies with supermassive black holes at the center of them. Unfortunately finding an answer to this isn't as simple as pointing a telescope towards it. Because it's currently on the exact opposite side of the milky way than we are and it's virtually impossible to look directly through the center of our own galaxy.
Perhaps one day another attractor will be discovered that's easier to observe or it'll simply be a matter of time until our orbit and galaxy gives us a better vantage point. But figuring out what the anomaly truly is will undoubtedly change our understanding of the universe forever !
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