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Laniakea Supercluster: Characters & Geography
The Laniakea Supercluster or Laniakea for short (/ˌlɑːni.əˈkeɪ.ə/; Hawaiian for "open skies" or "immense heaven") is the large-scale structure centered around the Great Attractor that is home to the Milky Way and approximately 100,000 other nearby galaxies. It was originally defined in September 2014 as a galaxy supercluster, when a group of astronomers…
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Laniakea Supercluster topic overview
The analysis highlights Characters and Geography as prominent areas in the source structure around Laniakea Supercluster.
Related topics
64
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
68
Extracted relationships
52
Concept neighborhoods
26
Bridge connections
68
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Characteristics · 38 topics
Overview · 21 topics
Name · 3 topics
Location · 2 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Binding mass
1×1017 M☉
Constellation(s)
Triangulum Australe and Norma (Great Attractor)
Declination
−46° 00′ (Great Attractor)
Distance
250 million ly (77 Mpc) h−1 67.80 ± 0.077 (Great Attractor) (H0 from Planck 2013)
Major axis
404 Mly (124 Mpc): 3 [a]
Number of galaxies
100,000–150,000[citation needed]
Explore all related topics Closing gaps
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.
Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How Laniakea Supercluster connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Laniakea Supercluster shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Laniakea Supercluster → Centaurus SuperclusterAntlia Wall, Dorado, Eridanus, Fornax Cluster, Horologium Supercluster, Hydra, Hydra SuperclusterCentaurus SuperclusterSouthern Supercluster, Indus Superclusterthe Great Attractor, It, Laniakea's, Local Group, Milky Way, Mpc, Norma ClusterPavo, Norma Supercluster, NormaSeveral, Ophiuchus Cluster, Ophiuchus Supercluster, S373, The Laniakea Another extracted example is Laniakea Supercluster → Bloomberg, City' Just Got, CityLab, Daniel Pomarède, Laniakea, Meet Laniakea, Nature Video, New Name, October, Our Home Supercluster, Redrawing, Retrieved, September, Supercluster, The Boundaries, The Milky Way's, Vimeo. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 52 structured relationships around Laniakea Supercluster. Examples in this analysis include Laniakea Supercluster → Binding mass → 1×1017 M☉ and Laniakea Supercluster → Constellation(s) → Triangulum Australe and Norma (Great Attractor). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
Subject
Predicate
Object
Confidence
Src
Laniakea Supercluster
Binding mass
1×1017 M☉
1.00
infobox
Laniakea Supercluster
Constellation(s)
Triangulum Australe and Norma (Great Attractor)
1.00
infobox
Laniakea Supercluster
Declination
−46° 00′ (Great Attractor)
1.00
infobox
Laniakea Supercluster
Distance
250 million ly (77 Mpc) h−1 67.80 ± 0.077 (Great Attractor) (H0 from Planck 2013)
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Laniakea Supercluster bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Supercluster, Attraction and Superclusters. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
Laniakea Supercluster
Supercluster
Attraction
Superclusters
Shapley
Basins
Local
Way
Also
Structure
Studies
Attractor
Great
laniakea supercluster
Supercluster
Attraction
Superclusters
Galaxy
Including
Local
Shapley
Basins
Way
Also
Structure
Studies
milky way
Milky
Way
Galaxies
Approximately
Group
Supercluster
Attractor
Great
Superclusters
Local
Galaxy
Defined
supercluster
Galaxy
Including
Local
Way
Superclusters
Attraction
Virgo
Basins
Cluster
Cetus
Complex
Defined
hydra-centaurus supercluster
Galaxy
Including
Local
Way
Superclusters
Attraction
Virgo
Basins
Cluster
Cetus
Complex
Defined
supercluster cocoons
Galaxy
Including
Local
Way
Superclusters
Attraction
Virgo
Basins
Cluster
Cetus
Complex
Defined
pisces–cetus supercluster complex
Complex
Pisces
Galaxy
Shapley
Including
Local
Way
Hawaiian
Superclusters
Attraction
Structure
Virgo
horologium supercluster
Galaxy
Including
Local
Way
Superclusters
Attraction
Virgo
Basins
Cluster
Cetus
Complex
Defined
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Laniakea Supercluster, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Laniakea Supercluster with Characteristics. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Laniakea Supercluster
Nodes69
Edges68
Triples52
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028986
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Laniakea Supercluster to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Characters & Geography, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
