A stellar merger is another potential outcome, depending on the orbital evolution of the system. (sciencedaily.com)
Researchers suddenly had many more options at their disposal, according to physicist Douglas Stanford of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. «You can analyze things about a black hole you couldn't any other way, like the time evolution of the system,» he says. (discovermagazine.com)
... It is somewhat controversial to go further and maintain that there is a general directionality to the unfolding cosmos - and to the overall evolution of systems within it. (faith.org.uk)