The Great Attractor Explained

Since the Big Bang, the universe has been growing at an ever-accelerating rate. Galaxies are moving away from one another every day, faster and faster. However, there is something that is gravitationally deviating the Milky Way's path and pulling our galaxy towards it. Actually, that's not really a thing, but rather a place. Over the course of billions of years, a massive point in the universe known as the Great Attractor has been pulling us and about 100,000 of our neighboring galaxies closer to it. This region of space is located about 220 million light-years away at the center of Laniakea Supercluster, which is home to our own galaxy and 100,000 others. The gravitational center of Laniakea Supercluster is currently occupied by the Norma Cluster, which is the accumulation of all the gas and galaxies that already beat us there. The true nature of the Great Attractor is a mystery to us. All that scientists understand about it is that it features a few clusters and superclusters of galaxies, and the Milky Way is moving toward them at more than 2 million kilometers per hour. But fortunately, the Great Attractor won't destroy our galaxy, because we will never reach it. The dark energy that is causing the expansion of our universe to accelerate will rip the Norma Cluster away from us. Even the huge Laniakea will one day fall apart. Gravitationally bound structures like the solar system, the Milky Way, and the local group will remain cohesive, but anything larger will get ripped apart. Therefore, expansion will win against condensing worlds.