Sentences with phrase «where gravitational tidal forces»
The doomed galaxies would have been pulled apart like taffy if they plunged through the center of the galaxy cluster where gravitational tidal forces are strongest.
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Over time, the rings spread out, and the icy bits that drifted farthest from Saturn eventually reached distances where their gravitational attraction for each other could overcome the planet's tidal forces that tended to rip them apart — a process that is still happening today, according to observations by the Cassini spacecraft now touring the Saturn system.