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Old 10-05-2016, 12:08 AM
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Dark Flow - like dark energy

There is a video on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHTna9D3nIY

Also Wikipedia:

Dark flow is an astrophysical term describing a possible non-random component of the peculiar velocity of galaxy clusters. The actual measured velocity is the sum of the velocity predicted by Hubble's Law plus a possible small and unexplained (or dark) velocity flowing in a common direction.
According to standard cosmological models, the motion of galaxy clusters with respect to the cosmic microwave background should be randomly distributed in all directions. However, analyzing the three-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data using the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, astronomers Alexander Kashlinsky, F. Atrio-Barandela, D. Kocevski and H. Ebeling found evidence of a "surprisingly coherent" 600–1000 km/s[1][2] flow of clusters toward a 20-degree patch of sky between the constellations of Centaurus and Vela.
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