• SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    What really are gravitational waves? Are they like electromagnetic waves? Do they cause orbital decay? I have so many questions.

      • psud@aussie.zone
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        3 months ago

        Surely they’re more like ocean waves; EM waves are electric and magnetic fields pulling each other up by their boot straps. Gravity waves are distortions in spacetime

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      3 months ago

      Gravitational waves do cause orbital decay as the energy required to create them comes from the objects own momentumn.

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      3 months ago

      I highly suggest you look up PBS spacetime on YouTube. They have an incredible amount of very informative videos on black holes and gravitational waves. As well as pretty much any other astrophysics topic you can think of (and many you can’t!)