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Is it possible for the Great Attractor to be a Hypergiant(?) Black hole?
gpt
It's always important to keep in mind, a black hole is *not* a great cosmic vacuum cleaner. It doesn't have a preternatural ability to suck up everything in its path.

What determines the strength of an object's gravitational pull is, more or less, its mass and its distance from us. A black hole is special because it's compact. This means you can get closer to it while still feeling all of its mass. But from a distance, it gravitates just the same as anything else with the same mass.