A new map of the "Cosmic Web" that shaped the universe shows points of gravitational attraction in the local universe called "basins of attraction" in hitherto unseen detail.
Created using information from the Cosmicflows-4 dataset, the new map defines basins of attraction or "gravitational wells" where gravity dominates and draws galaxies together in greater detail than ever before. The map also revealed a surprise about our home galaxy. Measuring the velocity and motion of 56,000 galaxies, the research reveals that our cosmic home, the Milky Way, is likely part of a 1,000 million light-year-wide basin of attraction called the Shapely Basin, which the Laniakea supercluster basin of attraction is being dragged toward.
