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Florin_Andrei on July 6, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Kepler telescope glimpses population of free-float...

Ok, external perturbation, got it.

Yeah, that makes sense. Otherwise it would just very slowly spiral in, due to losses from general relativity.

actually_a_dog on July 6, 2021 [–]

Yep, and loss of angular momentum due to it being carried away by gravity waves would probably take many trillions of years, I would guess.

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