gravitationally
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A third technique is now emerging based on gravitationally lensed supernovae like SN Winny.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026
"To lose the kind of mass we saw in just the last few years… it almost certainly requires two stars gravitationally bound to each other," he explained.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 28, 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
Later, the stars wander out of their nursery to seek their fortunes in the Milky Way, stellar adolescents still surrounded by tuffs of glowing nebulosity, residues still gravitationally attached of their amniotic gas.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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