Sentences with phrase «lose orbital energy»

The black holes in each of these binaries will, over eons, emit gravitational radiation, lose orbital energy and spiral inward, ultimately merging into a larger black hole like the event LIGO observed.
Eventually, this causes celestial bodies to lose orbital energy, and they will have shorter orbital periods of only a few days.»

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The observed shift in the Hulse - Taylor binary's orbital period over time as it loses energy to gravitational - wave emission.
Naively, the hydrogen - bonded water droplets might lose some or all of their energy (latent heat) via IR radiation as the energy in the molecular orbitals drops to a lower level -LRB-??)
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