The Inevitability of Colliding Stars

Two huge objects in orbit around each other eventually will radiate away some of that energy and collapse into the centre. And that' sot is true also for even our solar system, ri like eventually, in t the far, far, far,. far, far future, our orbit will eventually fall into the sun. There's competing effects there, because the earth is not nearly as massive as another star, so it doesn't generate as much gravitational radiation. But if they don't, if nothing comes along to perturb it, then eventually they will spiral into each other. These cataclysmic events are really important for creating the elements that help make up you and me, and the