How to Use gravitational radiation in a Sentence
gravitational radiation
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Because energy is conserved, and gravitational radiation (also known as a gravitational wave) carries energy, this leads to the decay of the mutual orbits of these masses.
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Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
17 Sep. 2025
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As a result, gravitational radiation is much weaker in magnitude compared to electromagnetic radiation, and much harder to detect.
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Big Think,
3 Apr. 2026
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That gravitational radiation is similar to conventional, electromagnetic radiation in many ways, but different in a few profound ones.
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Big Think,
3 Apr. 2026
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That acceleration, which for one mass orbiting another (like a planet orbiting a star) is both non-spherical and asymmetrical, necessitates the emission of gravitational radiation in order to conserve both energy and momentum.
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Big Think,
3 Apr. 2026
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From across the Universe, a black hole of 36 times the mass of the Sun merged with another of 29 times the Sun’s mass, producing a remnant black hole of just 62 solar masses, with the other 3 solar masses getting converted into gravitational radiation via Einstein’s E = mc².
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Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
17 Sep. 2025
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