General: The act or state of growing together, as similar parts;
the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united.
Merging of the stars composing a → binary system
after having undergone → supernova explosion.
General relativity predicts that binary systems of
→ compact objects
will emit energy in the form of → gravitational radiation,
and that this loss of energy eventually will lead to the coalescence of the system.
See also: Verbal noun from → coalesce.
