In Fiction
The Great Attractor is mentioned in the "Pip and Flinx" series by novelist Alan Dean Foster, in the book Flinx's Folly. The Great Attractor is referenced as an attempt of an ancient alien race to create something with enough gravitational pull to move the Milky Way, among other galaxies.
It is also a major plot point in the Xeelee Sequence series of books by Stephen Baxter, specifically in the book Ring where it is described as a cosmic string, artificially made into a loop creating the phenomenon of the Great Attractor.
In the movie Men in Black, the Great Attractor is described as a sentient being who, in addition to distorting the arrangement of nearby galaxies, caused the New York City blackout of 1977 as a practical joke with a device that is now safely stored in the MIB's headquarters. According to Agent K, the Attractor considered the blackout to be "funny as hell".
The Great Attractor is mentioned by the name "Azrael" in Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (1991).
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