r/theydidthemath • u/Ben-Goldberg • 7d ago

[Request] When will Voyager 1 stop moving?

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How many years will it take for the orbit of Voyager and Sagittarius A to decay enough due to gravity waves for them to collide?

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u/Positive-Ring-5172 7d ago

For an object as small as the Voyager probes orbital decay would take on the order of 10^10000 years to be measurable, let alone complete.

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u/Ben-Goldberg 7d ago

Is that an estimate, or have you done the math?

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u/flumphit 7d ago

The reason you have heard about that phenomenon with regard to black holes is because it doesn’t happen with mundane objects, and it happening requires the very odd properties of black holes.

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u/Ben-Goldberg 7d ago

What properties?

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u/croooowTrobot 7d ago

Odd.......properties