The Great Attractor: A Truly Massive Mystery

[@qtmeet]

He talks about it like we are going to reach it in a few months lmao

[@Akymma]

I'm buying some canned tuna and nailing the windows with woodplanks just in case. You never know.

[@boxofjoosh8314]

+Akymma I bought myself some Vienna Sausages, Hot Pockets, and Pizza Rolls.

[@boxofjoosh8314]

Mohammad Arif Anuar Well Mr. Blankey is prepared in my backpack.

[@Dieahreha]

Geometry Dash Faso i wish

[@rxonmymind8362]

JoshTehGameh Bastard. YOU took the last of the sausages. 😁 Trade you some Spam in a can.

[@Pegasys22]

The great attractor is in the zone of avoidance,,,, reminds me of my crush at work

[@tobsmonster2]

Oh no. That was great :D

[@sphinxrising1129]

Sexual Harassment lawsuit warning😂

[@ebonymaw8457]

Same. My crush is always in the playground area which is "off limits" to janitors and most adults in general 😒

[@soapsalt2748]

@@ebonymaw8457 yikes!

[@dougraddi908]

Lol

[@danerang]

The Zone Of Avoidance is the nerdiest name ever and I love that it's a real thing

[@littlechickeyhudak]

It’s a synonym for the area me and my friends sit at for lunch

[@zes3813]

no such thing as nerdy about it, cepu, name, say any nmw is ok

[@stelsewhere3748]

@me and me Behold the Galactus; Devourer of worlds.

[@cantoninacanton]

I am a supercluster complex pulling on the great attractor, and a LOT of other stuff, some other superclusters, seriously... 😳

[@hermanpesina6328]

I'm pretty sure someone playing dd has called an area the zone of avoidance

[@Clockworkcityofpain]

Don't let the existential dread set in. Don't let it set in.

[@gkv1786]

Too late

[@fredstead5652]

Don't worry mate. We'll be absorbed by the sun long before we reach the Great Attractor.

[@RiniKiwi]

'It uses black holes to pick its teeth' hahaha I love how you present this show!

[@brianlinville439]

yes, he has an interesting way of presentation for sure. They say we only see a fraction of a fraction of what all is out there, perhaps just fraction of the top layer, maybe we are being drawn toward the Grand central Sun.

[@ashwaryp]

had to scroll a bit to find this comment :D

[@LadyOfTheEdits]

LolXD

[@David-uc4hc]

We shouldn't fear the unknown. Maybe the great attractor is actually a galaxy sized planet made of pure candy and happiness! ... ... Why can't it ever be candy and happiness?

[@David-uc4hc]

Chrisb112 I knew there were good reasons why I'm terrified of the drain in the bathtub!

[@truexorcerer]

Morgan Freeman?

[@malekisweird1403]

David Evans you forgot this is real life... nothing in space is candy and happiness it’s all death , decay , sadness , loneliness , and last but not least Emptiness. EDIT: Alhamdulillah, the only cure to depression was being guided to the truth! Alhamdulillah and Allah Akbar!

[@sugoruyo]

Well, one, a galaxy sized candy planet would still have crushing gravity. You wouldn't even have to eat it to weigh 2000lb, just being far enough away to see it with a telescope would do it. Two, we don't seem to be closing the distance, the expansion of the universe means it's moving away from us too so no worries.

[@moti1s]

A planet this big would collapse into a black hole. A black hole of candy and hapiness.

[@sarbe6625]

i dont know about you guys but i find the great attractor quite attractive.

[@SSMateuszSS]

THE END

[@fsmoura]

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[@rxonmymind8362]

Greetings Fellow Humons We could go round and round about this.

[@The-Autistic-Rat]

I wouldn't kick it out of bed for dragging me slowly into uncertain cosmic doom.

[@Larboga]

Yeah she’s hot

[@BortolanAlexandre]

it's obviously Cthulhu

[@jambodafty22]

Is Cthulhu that big

[@tommerchant7542]

Yes

[@daniescott3000]

Or Galactus

[@ragnkja]

Cthulhu (Regio) is on Pluto. ;)

[@Scarlettlnz]

+Cameron McCabe Cthulhu is even bigger.

[@nates9536]

Well I for one, welcome our new attractor overload

[@цветок-ш7п]

hehehe

[@SDCGI]

overlord*?

[@clayb5304]

oh great flying head in the sky, accept our prayers!

[@ReApEr1810001]

The Xeelee don't care about lording over us. Just stay out of their way.

[@AJZulu]

I'm Overloading! AAAAAH!

[@SwitchFeathers]

SciShow space has taught me that reality is, in fact, a real cosmic horror story. That there are things which we cannot see possessing power so unfathomable and incomprehensible that their very existence is enough to bend what we feeble flesh bags think of as "physics" in ways that defy our petty understanding. It has taught me that the very laws of the universe itself can be broken by none other than the universe and that we may never, truly, understand anything about the reality surrounding us before we are inevitably swallowed up by the very ball of nuclear fire that granted us life in the first place. Thanks SciShow Space.

[@Arbaaltheundefeated]

SwitchFeathers It has also taught me that none of these unfathomably and incomprehensibly powerful things have any sort of relevance to my life or even the lives of those born ten thousand generations after us for that matter. If we feeble humans somehow actually manage to survive long enough for any of these cosmic death-things to be a concern like the Sun expanding to make Earth uninhabitable or a rogue dwarf star careening into our solar system we will probably have spread so far across the galaxy and perhaps even beyond, that the loss of Earth seems relatively inconsequential. You know, considering how far we've come in the last two hundred years, imagine if we actually get to exist for another hundred thousand, let alone millions.

[@Ashvoreth]

SwitchFeathers The Great Attractor is actually Azathoth from Lovecraftian mythos. Makes as much sense.

[@maseej]

laws of the universe according to humans*

[@supressorgrid]

+SwitchFeathers God has big plans.

[@livedandletdie]

+SwitchFeathers My guess is that one of the cosmic horrors is behind this.

[@Rexxae]

Maybe 'The Great Attractor' is an alien construct, fighting the expansion of the universe, sacrificing the closest galaxies for a better long future.

[@littlechickeyhudak]

RaggedFlag that makes it less terrifying and kind of wholesome

[@Plamkton]

That scares me, reason being is if they figured out a way to pull massive galaxies, and that's what they're doing, then they havent figured out a way to reverse entropy and in short over a stupidly long time. Were fucked!

[@dyadyabafomyot1668]

@@Plamkton they'll soon harvest our galaxy.

[@michaelhutchins1844]

@@littlechickeyhudak unless it uses the closest galaxies as fuel. More terrifying?

[@selfsent5895]

Thought exactly of this. The scales this type of civilization would be playing on is insanse. Billions of years of planning. Has to be super advanced or AI for a whole civilization to agree to work on such a long common goal, and ignore their day to day issues. Beating entropy might be the end game of the universe game of conciousness & intelligence indeed. The universe trying to keep itself 'alive' as long as it can. Too bad we will never see these possibilities, however greatfull to have the ability to imagine them and experience it in our head.

[@andretsang7337]

"The great attractor" hey that's what they call me!

[@andretsang7337]

Jk they actually call me the zone of avoidance

[@ThenameisNiels]

+Andrew Sang until 2:52 I thought that was clever :p

[@relentlessmadman]

+Andrew Sang yes yes you are are just like all young people a legend in your own mind.

[@andretsang7337]

relentlessmadman You're probably a grouchy old fogie

[@LashknifeTalon]

+Andrew Sang ...so you have the mass of a million billion suns?

[@omarrjb]

SERIOUS QUESTION: (Please thumbs up this so SciShow could see) Recently the LIGO group has discovered the presence of gravitational waves in the universe, proving one of Einstein's ideas. My question is: could we somehow (with the use of ultra sensitive instruments) see into the Zone of Avoidance with the help of gravitational wave measurements?

[@blockhead134]

Dont take my word for it because im no expert, but arent gravitational waves only caused by certain things? I would think that it would be a very ineffeciant and unreliable way to measure anything aside from the cause of the waves themselves

[@buildasnowman4601]

Nope. Using gravitational waves we can measure when giant black holes collide - that's about it.

[@IngrainedReason]

www.ligo.org/science/GW-Potential.php Observation of gravitational waves will be able to see places that are currently hidden but it is limited to quite extreme phenomena. Although not just giant black holes colliding. The eLISA mission by ESA plans to look at smaller phenomena using a space based experiment.

[@KazmirRunik]

Massive things would need to be travelling at high speeds for it to work. I'll illustrate another way that gravitational waves can be produced. Our moon has a gravitational field that can be detected, meaning it sends a high amount of gravitons our way. Gravitons are like photons, except instead of communicating electromagnetic fluctuations, they communicate gravity fields, and gravitons are emitted in all directions by all things that have mass. If the moon were to suddenly jerk toward us at a very high speed then stop, we would be receiving an extremely high amount of gravitons in a short time followed by a dip in the amount of gravitons we receive. This is a gravitational wave. It's just a change in the gravitational field that surrounds us. It was only ever big news because we weren't as sure about gravitons even existing before. With this, we now have demonstrable proof that gravity is communicated at a finite speed, the speed of light, and that a quick change in its intensity can cause space to shorten and lengthen accordingly since gravity bends space. Theoretically, the most sensitive instruments conceivable could sense gravitational waves rippling from any motion by any particle with mass, provided those ripples are not shorter than the Planck distance. The problem then comes with separating out the noise coming from the countless moving objects creating gravity ripples. Distinguishing particular objects on the other side of a galaxy with upwards of billions of objects in the way is inconceivable for anything but the grandest of spacetime fluctuations, and even then, we'd need to have multiple detectors very far apart to determine how far away the waves are coming from. It makes gravitational waves a pretty lost cause, as the gravitons of our galaxy drown out what's behind it just like the photons of our galaxy do. We'd have better luck with ultra-sensitive telescopes.

[@buildasnowman4601]

Kazmir Runik Gravitons are just an idea - we aren't even close to calling it a full fledge, proved, theory. But those 'gravitons', real or not, have nothing to do with the gravitational waves. General relativity predicted nothing about gravitons but it did predict these waves. Gravitons predict that gravity has a wave-particle-field duality (like light), but general relativity just describes a field-wave duality. We knew gravity traveled at a finite speed before, and these observations prove nothing about the existence of gravitons. These gravitational waves were ripples in spacetime (sounds like back to the future, right? xD) cause by massive amounts of gravity. That's all we're talking here. Nothing happened in the 3D physical world, no particles came shooting at us (that we can detect). GR says that gravity warps spacetime like a big elastic sheet (hence time slows down as you accelerate), and these gravitational waves were ripples detected in spacetime. It had nothing to do with gravitons.

[@kayejackson6130]

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[@kayejackson6130]

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[@TytolisMemes]

"Butt-Clenchingly Terrifying Vortex or Nearly Unfathomable Power"

[@isupermandude]

I just love the names astronomers give out, "the zone of avoidance", what a name!

[@JoshuaHillerup]

At least we'll be able to see that in about 50 million years.

[@GeeMannn]

wanna play some videogames while we wait?

[@rxonmymind8362]

George Emdin Got a bar?

[@fossilftw]

And the world will end in 4 billion years soooo r.i.p future people

[@kaarstaag]

@@fossilftw He said 50 million not billion

[@ADEehrh]

Let's all meet somewhere.

[@Maxtastic92]

Absolutely love what Hank and all of you guys are doing! You're a really engaging host as well...

[@BramsCommando]

The space is such an interesting place. It makes no sense, but yet it's everything.

[@hikarudoesthings9481]

I WANT TO KNOW EVERY THING ! I WANT TO GO BEYOND THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE ! :D

[@BugLivestreams]

Hikaru Gabriel Kuboyama TO THE MULTIVERSE

[@dinodude7290]

everything !!? good luck not leting your brein explode

[@dcqec111]

Hikaru Gabriel Kuboyama I share your sentiment

[@harveyroper5526]

Its physically impossible to go past the observable universe, you'd have to be travelling faster than light

[@spudthepug]

Well the unobservable becomes observable as you travel.

[@WillShackAttack]

Astronomers: "Fascinating! Our Galaxy is being attracted by the gravity from a mass equal to 10,000 Milky Way Galaxies!" Hillbillies: "OH GOD! WE ALL GONNA DIE!!!"

[@harpodjangorose9696]

WillShackAttack Nah, it's just a myth, like climate change and planned parenthood.

[@tysonjaypalmer9700]

Harpo Django Rose, nice one. :P

[@fsmoura]

Hillbilly astronomers: "Oh Lawd! 100,000 Milky Way Masses! Y'all gon die! Fascinating! Maureen, the telescope is off-kilter-pass the duct tape!"

[@brianlinville439]

not their fault, their raised southern baptists

[@GoofyAhWizardMan]

I'll bet that most of the religious ones won't even believe in the great attractor.

[@silmarian]

But... But... There's no corn fields in Duluth! Just trees, cliffs, and a deep water port.

[@herrklockow5879]

glad you said that. yep. no corn. just cliffs and bridges.

[@huntmcdede1238]

Maybe it's something similar to a supermassive black hole, like the ones at the centers of our galaxies. Maybe our galaxy is sentient, has sensed that we're here, and is blocking what it is to stop us from panicking. Maybe it's a giant space monster that wants to eat us!

[@GokuGX]

+Gabe Newell Gave please release half life 3

[@covalencedust2603]

+Gracc Mcdede a super super super supermassiveblack hole seems like the most probable cause but how would that black hole have gotten there? The largest black holes are the ones at the center of galaxies and they are like nothing compared to this object, like a grain of sand compared to the earth.

[@huntmcdede1238]

Covalence Dust Maybe that's where the Big Bang started, and that amount of energy converted into matter caused the collapse of the initial point, creating a supermassive attractor, and once it has absorbed everything in the universe including itself, it'll explode in a new Big Bang.

[@xL33CHx]

+Gracc McDede I've often thought of this singularity cycle as being a viable explanation. Also the Attractor or even just the action of this seem to support this plausibility of it.

[@iota-09]

+xL33CHx yup, it's not exactly how i thought it out too, but i gets very close to my idea, and it's also the only way to explain the "what's beyond the"edge" of the current universe" dilemma (residue of the last universe,of the last universe, of the last universe, so on and so until it reaches back to the other side of the actual universe(there's no time outside our universe anyway, so it doesn't matter how absurd a reacharound woul be like))

[@mystuff8602]

isn't the solar-system orbiting the Milky-way? shouldn't that mean, that at one point, we will be on the other side of the galaxy and able to see the great attractor?

[@yobeefjerky42]

in a few million years, yes

[@mystuff8602]

oh... okay then

[@michaelvasey5988]

Want to play tic tac toe to pass the time while we wait?

[@jadenhenderson1451]

The Attractor is also orbiting the center of the milky-way so it will always be on the opposite side of our view.

[@mystuff8602]

Jaden Henderson I don't think the GA is orbiting the milky way. that would be like the sun orbiting the moon. usually more massive objects tend to be orbited by less massive objects

[@shyampatel999]

Blackhole : i run these galaxies. Great attractor : that's cute.

[@Kelgorn]

I had to stop for a few minutes at Butt-clenchingly terrifying vortex of nearly unfathomable power, I was laughing too much.

[@tomryan3408]

0:40 I really don't like to nag but PLEASE use the real number (quadrillion), it is so annoying having to calculate it.

[@markburch6253]

One of my favorite scientific facts is that as we sit perfectly still watching this video we are hurtling through space at roughly 2 million miles per hour. (if you add the rotational speed of the milky way to the speed of the milky way through the Universe. from what I understand we're currently spinning in the same direction that the entire Galaxy is heading)

[@erich4351]

It's the Ring built by the Xeelee in the book by Stephen Baxter, Ring! Basically a bunch of Cosmic String built into a ring by the Xeelee to help them strip away the event horizon of a black hole.

[@nightflash4782]

Slightly unsettling

[@123rikin]

YESSSSSS! I have been waiting for a video on this!!!

[@lgi60]

??????????????????????????????????????Is it possible to send a telescope vertical to our galaxy to get pictures of this and if so how long would it take to be able to get a clear enough view please answer??????????????????????

[@CollapsedWhiteStar]

LGI No, it's not feasible. You would need to get many light years above the Milky Way to get rid of it in the images, and we don't have the technology to travel interstellar distances. If we were to send a telescope now, it would probably take millions of years for it to be high enough to be able to take the picture we're looking for.

[@unvergebeneid]

LGI Jeez, did you run out of question marks after half a line?

[@橋本絵莉子]

John Smith Yea and it does also takes a lot of time till the data will reach us here back on earth all the way, until that time we are already in position to see what going on there.

[@unvergebeneid]

***** Oh, I missed the test flights that prove that we do in fact have that technology and that it can get us to 0.2c. Because as it looks to me, you might as well have said that we _have_ the technology for the warp drive: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

[@galaxymaster]

I wish people would stop killing and oppressing each other and only focus on learning more about the world and what's put there. Think of the progress we would make... instead we fight over money

[@Plamkton]

I'm a few years too late but what if the great attracter is a type 3 or type 4 civilization trying to pool in as much matter as it possibly can before its lost due to Hubble flow? Matter is finite and the same is with resources, it wouldnt be far fetched that, that powerful of a civilization would attempt a cosmic storing up for the permanent winter to follow.

[@metodoinstinto]

What a great video. Short and straight to the point. Subscribed.

[@camblor8353]

"Uses black holes to pick it's teeth"..... I near spat my drink out with laughter 😂. My favourite quote of the day.

[@shedopen9456]

That's the destiny of the Spiral! Every Galaxy gets pulled into a super-dense area called the Spiral-Nemesis. Every fraction of matter gets part of this area and forms a "supernatural black hole", which will contain the mass of the whole universe... That Galaxy-graveyard will be the end of our current universe...

[@TonyF1MMA]

I think there's probably an even bigger level no matter what. There are several great attractors orbiting an even greater attractor orbiting greater attractor and so on.

[@littlechickeyhudak]

Honestly, I believe it. Some sort of fractal system to our universe. Moons orbiting planets, planets orbiting stars, stars orbiting black holes in galactic centres, galaxies orbiting black holes in superclusters, superclusters possible orbiting... bigger black holes, and so on.

[@massimookissed1023]

Speeding towards a truck we can't see 'cos of the headlights... The Shapley Superclusterfuck.

[@mindsurfer101101]

Just subbed this channel, already a scishow subscriber. I love this guy's energy, don't know how it took so long for me to find this channel.

[@peters.9371]

This may seem kind of dumb but it really puts me at ease that we're moving towards other galaxies and stuff, as opposed to everything moving away leaving only our pocket of the universe. May we go forwards and explore this beautiful world!

[@djow314]

I'm seriously thinking about starting a cult in which I am the leader of a group of people who worship the Great Attractor.

[@Rich.3015]

I think Halle Berry is allready being worshiped xD

[@Treblaine]

0.2% the speed of light is pretty damn fast.

[@unoriginalusernameno999]

Treblaine Nope...Just 600 Km/s...A lot of comets in our Solar System travell at 300 Km/s and there are instances of stars travelling at 1200 Km/s...But yeah...Fast

[@LaGuerre19]

*_E N G A G E_*

[@JeramieCurtice]

1,342,161.78 MPH

[@BertGrink]

Why were there black dots in the image of the Virgo Supercluster? Were they censored by Google Maps? ;)

[@MrTomtomtest]

Aka for the same reason you put your hand in front of you when a bright light keeps you from seeing dimer things.

[@waxwinged_hound]

This video is 6 years old. And it's still my favorite. I don't think anything can top Reid's delivery of the line "Butt-Clenchingly Terrifying Vortex of Nearly Unfathomable Power" especially with the text labeling it as if it's part of the most important information.

[@ajcook7777]

he tells us we cant see this massive massive object we are being sucked towards and then at the end says in a n eye rolling serious question kind of way, "sleep tight everyone" hahaha I was dying

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

How long until our galaxy spins into a position where we can see that part of the universe... I wonder.

[@WarriorWildhead1337]

Given that one revolution of our galaxy is about 200 million years, I'd say 100 million years until we can catch a good look at the Zone of Avoidance, give or take.

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

1337er Wildhead I would think more like 50 million years if 12 o'clock is closest to what we cant see and we are at 6 o'clock then 3 o'clock (aren't we spinning counterclockwise?) would give us a decent angle. So plenty of time to book reservations.

[@WarriorWildhead1337]

MakeMeThinkAgain Yes, that's much more accurate. (Sidenote: Though given that we're talking about objects in space, there is no clockwise or counter-clockwise unless we designate some direction as "up" or "north." Doesn't change anything, but hey.)

[@The1Helleri]

I'm down to meet back here in 50 million years to discuss it.

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

***** I'm pretty booked up then but we could possibly Skype.

[@arathaemaxus5250]

Love this guy lol. It's like heavy metal meets science.

[@pokerface4848]

He really looks like a metal vocalist

[@combatking0]

The greater tractor?

[@The_NSeven]

sure..

[@T0YBOX]

These videos really need to be longer. Isaac Arthur proves there is an interest in it.

[@JosephFuller]

The "sleep tight" comment at the end reminded me of a dream that sometimes floats around my head on sleepless nights. My mind imagines that the sun would go out during the night and that when morning comes, it is still dark and growing colder, the day side having been cooked by a massive solar flare several hours earlier. There is no sun rise, only a still silence punctuated by a howling wind that blows cold and with the light from the moon gone out as well, only the last fluttering aurora dimly illuminates the skies. As it too fades, the light of stars hopelessly out of reach are all the light that comes from the heavens as the earth spins in the empty darkness getting colder.

[@iannd123]

i brush my teeth with mass effect fields

[@littlechickeyhudak]

Ian Darabos those brushes are like 6 thousand credits dude

[@UnknownPerson-cq3qv]

Alright traynor

[@masonrandle4662]

yo guys your audience here is probably pretty smart I am assuming, definitely better than average, so can you not do that thing where you say "million billion stars!" and just say "quadrillion stars" please

[@profsat5]

Yo,most of the audience here has to read the instructions on how to use toilet paper.

[@BMW3ICS]

i watched that part about 4 times saying "did he really just say a million, billion??" lol!

[@CuckooRules]

1000 mg of vitamin C

[@ZipperOfficial]

Doesn't sound as dramatic though.... But if you really want to be super anal about proper practice in the scientific methods, you would use the scientific notation... But I didn't come here to read formulas and equations, I came here to learn about fun facts while being entertained, quickly.

[@profsat5]

OK Blue,were all just Dust in the Wind,ya know Old School."You ma boy Blue!"

[@RussBrown]

Space is crazy and confusing. Something about this video sucks massively.

[@RobCookTheEngineer]

I miss the old days of discovery, where unexplainable things were given the prefix "x" (like x-rays), rather than "dark". Don't get me wrong, I do love the idea that we only have a halfway decent idea of what makes up less than 5% of the universe, but terms like Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Dark Flow just don't sound as cool.

[@ltericdavis2237]

Rob Cook X-matter, x-energy, x-flow. Does sound pretty cool.

[@eatmypinkthong]

Right I can't put my finger on it though

[@FieryFang1]

booo. bad joke

[@Sarcasticron]

I think you fail to recognize the gravity of the situation.

[@Manuipe]

I love this guy :) it feels so cool to share a universe with him... thank you man !

[@abigailpena5950]

Whoa.... Did anyone have a jaw drop moment and get chills when the video was over?....

[@MrJamesLongstreet]

That was...like...intense. But good.

[@nilayjain6043]

This blew my fucking mind

[@IncrediblyStupidName]

why couldn't I be born on the other side of the galaxy D=

[@bellelavictorie61]

+IncrediblyStupidName You did. This is the other side of the galaxy.

[@michaelsommers2356]

+IncrediblyStupidName Just wait a hundred thousand years or so and we'll be on the other side of the galaxy.

[@Just1MorePerson1]

What if when you die you reincarnate into some other species on some other planet in some other galaxy

[@meme__kun]

+Michael Sommers It actually takes about 250 million years for us to orbit the centre of the Milky Way once so it may take hundreds of millions of years until we can see this great attractor (assuming we don't kill ourselves off in the meantime).

[@michaelsommers2356]

What's a factor of 1000 among friends?

[@xcaluhbration]

Dude looks like a session drummer and is teaching me cool stuff. Nice.

[@MrMarvelMatt]

I love that this video is literally "so, this is happening, no idea why - but it is... tune in next week" 😂

[@jamesfinch691]

This guy sounds like Penn, of Penn and Teller fame.

[@skipsch]

How do we know it's a tractor?

[@ava1176]

It came to my mind...what if it's The Big Crunch? shit we're dead lolol

[@mightykitten4615]

That would take billions of years to happen. Which means that we're not dead, our offspring is.

[@mightykitten4615]

***** Sadly, you're right.

[@brittany2231]

The Big Crunch is not very plausible now that we know that not only are we, as galaxies, spreading further apart, but we are expanding at an *accelerating* rate, making the idea of the Big Crunch a thing of the past. The universe is theorized to die of heat death.

[@ricardoabh3242]

Expansion does not cause to move, all object in an expanding medium are static with respect to "space" and the velocity is apparent only/relative. This vid is one of the very good ones.

[@pucupuci8888]

these videos are just reminded me how small we are..... if the universe is as big as a football stadium... i wonder how big we are as big as an atom? maybe? or smaller? definetly smaller..

[@DaMango1000]

so illuminati confirmed?

[@pandamoonshine]

MsquarEd Yes Sir.

[@charlenefoti689]

Yes.

[@budgieentertainment9931]

Of course

[@jzblue345]

Absolutely that is the illuminati pulling us into a garmumgus black hole

[@misteryman526]

The good news is that in 50 million years or so the galaxy should rotate around enough that we'll be able to see in that direction! Assuming the Solar system survives the close encounters with those orange dwarf stars in the next million years...

[@The_Angry_BeEconomist]

thats a good point, the solar system I think takes about 250m years to complete one orbit

[@kashgarinn]

How long until we've rotated enough around the milky way to see stuff on the other side?

[@Ozzy_2014]

kashgarinn 1/4 if a billion years but if were still in same plane of the galaxy it won't help!

[@littlechickeyhudak]

ozzymandistwenty14 the orbital period of our sun around the galactic centre is about 240 million years. It’ll be about 60-100 before we can get a good look. The problem isn’t the plane we’re on, it’s that the galactic centre is dead in the way. Once we get around that, we’re solid

[@synexiasaturnds727yearsago7]

When dinosaurs were around.

[@OKPOP777]

I kindly invite you all to visit the urantia book online to know more about the great attractor. It is a masterpiece of its own.

[@malcolmmarshall7263]

Is the Great Attractor the beginning of the Big Crunch? Love your channel only found it recently.

[@auniversa]

The entire magical limited; universe will arrive at it's simplistic abstraction of previous state of color motion; eventually just takes a crazy; long time; we are in the abstraction phase; where the limitations of color motion are playing out; within (absorbing - lowest frequency - dark - previous state) and around each other (reflecting - highest frequency - light - abstraction of previous state ) in one way and or another whilst interacting (variation of frequency - gray and other colors - other abstractions of previous state; because of color motion; magical limitation).

[@cpob2013]

I love all things scishow but I think you guys left out one important detail. Whats our eta to this, thing. If we dont know, thats fine, but if we dont know, id like to know that we dont know. Yo dawg.

[@NeoDemocedes]

We are moving away from the great attractor, but it is dragging us against the "current" of the Hubble flow. 1:46

[@Lttlemoi]

Since the scientists involved seem to know all the speeds and distances, they can easily figure out how long it will take us. The amount of time is probably so huge that it doesn't matter to us anyway.

[@syedmonzareen5002]

SniX But wouldn't we be able to at least SEE the Great Attractor 250 million years from now, seeing as that's how long it takes for the sun to go around the Galactic Hub?

[@NeoDemocedes]

Syed Monzareen We will still be looking through the plane of the galaxy where all the dust and stars are. There will be far less dust in the way than now, but still too much to see anything in the visible spectrum.

[@lukedavidson3515]

Never. It's pulling on us, but also moving away from us. It's moving away from us faster than it's pulling us.

[@IvanAmentisBratoev]

Isn't an atractor something, that isn't a tractor?

[@truexorcerer]

Ivan Bratoev No it’s a sedan

[@dumpling3309]

No. A Mazda.

[@Xilehippo]

Galactus is coming!

[@sweatyeti]

If, for the sake of argument, our universe is merely a 13.8 billion year old black hole (us all being inside it), could this "great attractor" simply be the singularity we are falling towards (but will never actually reach)? I'm not familiar with the motion of all of the bodies in the universe, but have measurements been done to disprove this? I'd be curious.

[@julieandeddie]

good theory

[@apalahartisebuahnama7684]

My dad as a scientist : "son, i gonna tell you story about the great attractor" Me : "nah i knew it, scary things that exist outside there right?" My dad : "i talk about your mom"

[@probusexcogitatoris736]

This constant trend of talking faster and making even faster cuts is getting ridiculous. He barely finishes one line of thought before the video cuts to another one. It really is a reflection of the times we are living in. People are so impatient these days. If you can't say something in ten seconds, it's not worth saying. Instant gratification. If you can't have it right here and right now, it's not worth having. In fact, we are so impatient that we aren't even enjoying things we get. The very moment people get something they are already bored to death and seeking for something else. We have created a fucking ADHD -culture. Yes I know. No one will read this comment... tl;dr...

[@Kenzofeis]

I read it, and I must agree ;p

[@aplaceforthebirds4216]

yall need to chill

[@BorisGadjowsky]

I also agree with you, but most of the viewers won't even read your comment, because it's too "long" :D

[@probusexcogitatoris736]

Boris Gadjowsky If you would have read the whole comment through, you would have realized that I ended with "Yes I know. No one will read this comment... tl;dr... " ;)

[@BorisGadjowsky]

Once again, I agree ;)

[@yossipossi]

Oh no!!! I'm SO scared!!! This dumb thing will absorb out galaxy long after I'm dead and at an extremely slow rate on a cosmic scale!!!! Help!!!!

[@cedertrees2425]

Actually, apparently it won't, since it's moving away from us just as fast, if not faster than we're moving towards it.

[@yossipossi]

Cederva Arepel It's called sarcasm .-.

[@richardyu8723]

The dude said that it was moving was slower than us. -_-

[@LiaThePenguinologist]

they were adding to your point

[@greggasiorowski4025]

Eh, don't pee your pants, the whole universe is going burn out eventually so why not cut to the chase?

[@Infinity-Minus-One]

+Greg Gasiorowski yeah, why not even right now. if it's going to happen anyway,

[@greggasiorowski4025]

sacca madiqeu Because its a pretty fun ride while it lasts.

[@MrSvenovitch]

+Greg Gasiorowski Ask all the miserable underfed poor ppl in the world how much fun it is. And the parents breeding them into existence. And the animals bred for our meat,....

[@greggasiorowski4025]

+MrSvenovitch I don't need to as I was speaking for MYSELF not every downtrodden lifeform on the planet.

[@axem.8338]

I am from 2020 and the things we've seen so far, this seems pretty normal.

[@thewesternmoose8324]

"Zone of Avoidance" I love astronomers and the names they give things.

[@CanadianBoardCrew]

I thought the title said Great Tractor... Like the farm equipment

[@TheRealGuto_]

CanadianBoardCrew Hey! You havent logged in your cosmic farm for 2 years! Its time to get milk from your galaxies!

[@RedShirtGuy96]

It's Gurren Lagann

[@attila535]

+RedShirtGuy96 Exactly. I was just thinking the same.

[@Arkifer]

+RedShirtGuy96 Obviously

[@Xerrand]

isn't that an anime?

[@attila535]

Yes it is. We are referncing this scene from it:kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5aQe5x5msl2lZY

[@RenanKayaki]

OMG someone said that

[@samramdebest]

dark matter black hole?

[@NeoDemocedes]

Dark Mater: www.take5media.com/image-files/cars/img-stealth-mater1.jpg

[@ultrasuperkiller]

that... that does not even make sense... you... WHAAAAT!? how can something with NEGATIVE charge/energy clump up to the same place? dark matter pushes everything away from eachother. and btw darkmatters densety is about 1x10/\-100.

[@samramdebest]

ultrasuperkiller dark mater has negative energy? I thought the definition of dark mater was the stuff that has a gravitational effect on us but that we can't see

[@NeoDemocedes]

ultrasuperkiller You are thinking dark energy.

[@ultrasuperkiller]

NeoDemocedes oh crap, sorry. i guess i should wait untill i am not half-sleeping before i try to be smart :p

[@gdaris6306]

Supermassive black hole: I have the strongest gravity! The great attractor: That's cute

[@holyman3331]

his voice has many undertones.

[@mck9447]

I bet it's part of Kim Jong Un's secret spaceprogram

[@ultimatum1895]

lovecraftian horrors await

[@kregah666]

what about the dark flow? is it just another name for the great attractor? i have understood that dark flow and the great attractor are two seperate things, both pulling galaxy clusters towards them, but the cause of dark flow is outside of the observable universe.

[@rich1051414]

Dark flow means nothing except gravitational attraction from matter we cannot see.

[@kregah666]

Richard Smith yes, thats what i said. dark flow is a gravitational attraction which originates from outside of the observable universe. why did you repeat what i just said? i asked what is the difference between the great attractor and dark flow...

[@rich1051414]

kregah666 I answered your question... not a damn thing xD The great attractor is part of the so called 'dark flow'.

[@kregah666]

Richard Smith so the great attractror is the gravity anomaly outside the observable universe, and the dark flow is just the movement of the galaxies towards that object? anyway, thanks,

[@chimemonster]

kregah666 I THINK HE HAS A PROBLEM WITH YOUR USE of the word :outside: yes we cannot yet observe it , but i is not OUTSIDE potentially observable volume "HUBBLE VOLUME"

[@greenmilklatte]

No offense to any of the other hosts, and maybe it's just because I'm so obsess with space, but Reid is seriously my favourite Scishow host 👍

[@BrianHutzellMusic]

0:55 Dr. Flicker: Why are you depressed, Alvy? Mrs. Singer: Tell Dr. Flicker. It's something he read. Dr. Flicker: Something you read, huh? Alvy Singer: The universe is expanding. Dr. Flicker: The universe is expanding? Alvy Singer: Well, the universe is everything, and if it's expanding, someday it will break apart, and that will be the end of everything. Mrs. Singer: What is that your business? He's stopped doing his homework. Alvy Singer: What's the point? (from "Annie Hall")

[@Joe-mj9is]

Great attractor doesn't scare me, I'll be long gone before it consumes earth, as will my children and their children many generations later

[@MaeveFirstborn]

It's clearly Mayuri Shiina.

[@VedanthB9]

Steins;Gate? Here? Woah.

[@AirIUnderwater]

If I am to believe all the 11 years old kids on xbox live... it's my mom. O_O XD

[@KevinVerstegen]

Love this channel!

[@LaGuerre19]

Fascinating... *_BUTTCLENCHINGLY_* fascinating.

[@thoperSought]

the whole fear theme here was really irritating. if we're being sucked towards this great attractor, well, we're not going to get there in our lifetimes, or even the lifetimes of nth generation descendents. but, in fact, we're not being sucked towards it-not exactly-it's just moving away from us slower than it should be. or we're moving away from it. so... so what? don't get me wrong: the facts were interesting, but the presentation was irritating.

[@flaviusclaudius7510]

I think the theme of fear was entirely light-hearted and meant for entertainment's sake, not because it's anything that we'll ever have to worry about.

[@thoperSought]

Natasha Taylor yeah, you're probably right. even if I think about it that way, though, it still rubbed me the wrong way. what's the point of including humor in this story anyway? it's a "truly massive mystery," which I'd really like to believe is enough to hold people's interest for 4 minutes and 37 seconds. blah.

[@kyandeiai]

ThoperSought Maybe the use of humour isn't to attract those already interested in space? Also they might be using it to interested younger people with shorter attention spans.

[@thoperSought]

kyandeiai you're probably right. but, is it just me, or was that *lousy* humor? I feel like it detracted from the message, rather than making it more attention-keeping. ymmv, but I did not like it. I'd be curious to hear if anyone *did* like it, and how they felt about it as regards keeping their attention.

[@kyandeiai]

ThoperSought the humour is corny for sure, but it didn't really bother me.

[@barrybobert9294]

aw man, you owe me pants

[@HeatherSpoonheim]

From now on, when a see a dog pewping, I'm going to refer to that spot as a 'Zone of Avoidance'.

[@stupidmonkey341]

actually, this "thing" is a bit of a relief to me. we don't know what it is or what exactly its doing, but when i heard this my first thought went to the great collapse theory. this great force (in my mind) might be the process of the great collapse in which all energy in the universe collapses into a single point and returning us into nothingness. but i like this theory the most because after the collapse there is (in my mind) a decent chance another big bang will occur. (for anyone who actually read this, thank you, this is just my own mind wandering and i figured i would let the "world" know of my thoughts.)

[@enderoftime2530]

It’s interesting to see how the writing style and presenting style has changed in the last 6 years. Things have definitely gotten better in that time.