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How do inspiraling black holes get closer?

In Newtonian mechanics, binaries are stable. We here on earth are very glad that it will not emit its angular momentum and spiral into the sun. What is different about the black holes and neutron ...
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What happens to the angular momentum of two merging black holes?

Suppose that two black holes of roughly equal mass in a binary system, formed from say a large mass stellar binary system, are in orbits around their center of mass. Further, suppose that we are ...
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