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Robert Jackson

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Oct 5, 2026

GL DEEP DIVES

GL DEEP DIVES

The Great Attractor — The Invisible Force Pulling Our Galaxy

Oct 5 · 1 Mention

GorgorodHOST
14:04
Named after Sandra Faber, one of the Samurai, right?
speaker_1HOST
14:06
Yes, co-discovered a decade earlier in 1976 by Faber and Robert Earl Jackson.
speaker_1HOST
14:13
This is an empirical mathematical correlation that links the total intrinsic luminosity of an elliptical galaxy to its central stellar velocity dispersion.
GorgorodHOST
14:22
Okay, let's slow down and define the term so I don't get lost here.

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