gravitationally
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"If the orbital speed of the binaries is less than the kick speed, the wide binaries will become gravitationally unbound," Fuller explains.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
The two are gravitationally bound companions destined to unleash a fiery blast into the cosmos.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
And then the third condition was—and this is the one designed to eliminate bodies like Pluto—it has to gravitationally dominate its orbit in order to clear the neighborhood of its own orbit from other bodies.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 16, 2024
What they become after they collapse is the cause of much speculation, but it is believed that they could become black holes -- objects so gravitationally attractive that even light cannot escape them.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024
Newton noted that the matter in the tails of comets is dissipated in interplanetary space, lost to the comet and little by little attracted gravitationally to nearby planets.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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