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    generally as a redshift. The opposite effect, in which photons gain energy when travelling into a gravitational well, is known as a gravitational blueshift...
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    gravitational field as observed from within a stronger gravitational field, while gravitational redshifting implies the opposite conditions. The history of the...
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  • the perihelion of Mercury, the bending of light in gravitational fields, and the gravitational redshift. The precession of Mercury was already known; experiments...
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    from general relativity. One is gravitational redshift distortion, which arises from the net gravitational redshift, or blueshift, that is acquired when...
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    would gain energy when descending a gravitational potential, and would lose energy when rising through a gravitational potential. It was proposed by Robert...
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  • Gravity Probe A and other experiments. Gravitational time dilation is closely related to gravitational redshift, in which the closer a body emitting light...
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    physics, gravity (from Latin gravitas 'weight'), also known as gravitation or a gravitational interaction, is a fundamental interaction, a mutual attraction...
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  • appears to slow down, never quite crossing the horizon. Due to gravitational redshift, its image reddens over time as the object moves closer to the horizon...
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    voids, and hotter regions correlate with filaments because of gravitational redshifting. As the Sachs–Wolfe effect is only significant if the universe...
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    as gravitational redshift. Using the data collected from 8000 galaxy clusters, Wojtak was able to study the properties of gravitational redshift for...
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  • the propagation of light, and include gravitational time dilation, gravitational lensing, the gravitational redshift of light, the Shapiro time delay and...
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    principle of equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass and uses it to predict gravitational lensing and gravitational redshift, historically known as...
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    discovered at redshift z = 1.53. Gravitational Lensing Graphic (January 8, 2020) Hubble Showcases Hamilton's Object Illustration of gravitational lensing...
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  • Gravitational waves are oscillations of the gravitational field that travel through space at the speed of light; they are generated by the relative motion...
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  • considered as a special case of gravitational time dilation. The measured elapsed time of a light signal in a gravitational field is longer than it would...
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    effects of gravity, such as gravitational waves, gravitational lensing and an effect of gravity on time known as gravitational time dilation. Many of these...
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    ten degrees. The non-integrated Sachs–Wolfe effect is caused by gravitational redshift occurring at the surface of last scattering. The effect is not constant...
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  • consequences of general relativity are: Gravitational time dilation: Clocks run slower in deeper gravitational wells. Precession: Orbits precess in a way...
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    relativity predicts that clocks tick slower deeper in a gravitational field, and this gravitational redshift effect has been well documented. Atomic clocks are...
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    light is a class of hypothetical redshift mechanisms that was proposed as an alternative explanation for the redshift-distance relationship. These models...
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  • {2Mr\left(1-{\frac {2M}{r}}\right)}}}},} which is the Unruh effect. The gravitational redshift is given by the square root of the time component of the metric...
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  • applications in real world environments. A precise measurement of gravitational redshift was made in 2009 by Holger Muller, Achim Peters, and Steven Chu...
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    S2 would show a discernible gravitational redshift in addition to the usual velocity redshift. The gravitational redshift was detected, in agreement with...
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  • suffers gravitational collapse into a black hole. As this is a time dependent process, the Schwarzschild solution does not hold any longer. Gravitational redshift...
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    A gravitational singularity, spacetime singularity, or simply singularity, is a theoretical condition in which gravity is predicted to be so intense that...
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    equation of motion in a gravitational field, written out in full, is: inertial mass × acceleration = gravitational mass × gravitational acceleration Careful...
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    free-falling in the gravitational field of the Earth, exhibit tidal accelerations due to local inhomogeneities in the gravitational field such that each...
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  • effects of gravity, such as gravitational waves, gravitational lensing and an effect of gravity on time known as gravitational time dilation. Many of these...
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    Pioneers of gravitational theory In physics, theories of gravitation postulate mechanisms of interaction governing the movements of bodies with mass. There...
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  • measured the very slight gravitational redshift in the frequency of light emitted at a lower height, where Earth's gravitational field is relatively more...
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