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A common subject in this forum is that gravity propagates out from the Sun at the speed of light, and that Earth wouldn't leave its orbit until 8 minutes after the Sun disappeared. Wouldn't gravity propagate from Earth as well? Do those waves meet in the middle, and if so, what happens there?

by /u/ktool in /r/askscience

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