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But those detailed measurements only captured how gravitational waves move in a single direction—akin to waves flowing directly toward and away from a shoreline. Darling, in contrast ...

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As these binary systems emit gravitational waves, those ripples in spacetime carry away angular momentum. This causes the binary to tighten. In other words, the black holes move closer together.

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. How much do we really know about what else is out there in the universe? Let’s take an outlandish example.