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Should the stars of a relativistic binary system have tangential acceleration?

Should the stars of a relativistic binary system have tangential acceleration?
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Why can gravitational acceleration not be detected by experiments

I was doing research into how $G$ forces are calculated, and I was told that they show all acceleration that can be "sensed" by humans (i.e. all non-gravitational acceleration). This ...
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Position / velocity / acceleration vs time graphs when falling towards a black hole

In Newtonian physics, as far as I understand it, for a small object falling towards a massive object, the graphs of position, speed and acceleration vs time look like this: (If the massive object is ...
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