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Re:Astrophysicists do a 3-day long AMA about the discovery o... by versteegen on Monday February 15, 2016 @08:29AM (#11103252)
No, only accelerating objects create gravitational waves. (Massless particles have energy so also have gravitational fields and produce gravity waves when accelerating, by mass-energy equivalence.) The analogue of a gravity wave is not a magnetic field, which is created by a moving charge, but rather the electromagnetic radiation produced by an accelerating charge, e.g. synchrotron radiation or radio waves from an antenna.

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