Description
We note that nearby galaxies having high negative peculiar velocities are distributed over the sky very inhomogeneously. A part of this anisotropy is caused by the "Local Velocity Anomaly," i.e., by the bulk motion of nearby galaxies away from the Local Void. However, half of the fast-flying objects reside within a small region [RA=11.5h-13.0h, DE=+20{deg}-40{deg}] known as the Coma I cloud. According to Makarov & Karachentsev, this complex contains 8 groups, 5 triplets, 10 pairs, and 83 single galaxies with a total mass of 4.7x10^13^M_{sun}_. We use 122 galaxies in the Coma I region with known distances and radial velocities V_LG_<3000km/s to draw the Hubble relation for them. The Hubble diagram shows a Z-shaped effect of infall with an amplitude of +200km/s on the nearby side and -700km/s on the back side. This phenomenon can be understood as the galaxy infall toward a dark attractor with a mass of ~2x10^14^M_{sun}_ situated at a distance of 15 Mpc from us. The existence of a large void between the Coma and Virgo clusters also probably affects the Hubble flow around the Coma I.
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