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.»
Not exact matches
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-??)