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It would have been shoved backwards relative to the original orbit, perpendicular to the direction of the black hole. When you think of orbiting as "falling an
by drewtato 4y ago
It would have been shoved backwards relative to the original orbit, perpendicular to the direction of the black hole.
When you think of orbiting as "falling and missing continuously", the lowest-energy way to stop missing is to stop moving forward.