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The 45 pages that link to Dynamical friction, each with the reason it gives.

• Dark matter haloRelated: Satellite galaxies can lose orbital energy while moving through the halo.

• Globular clusterRelated: It can cause massive clusters to lose orbital energy and sink toward galactic centers.

• Galaxy mergerRelated: It drains orbital energy from merging galaxies and helps bring them together.

• Planetary migrationRelated: A planetesimal swarm can exchange momentum with a planet through this effect.

• Andromeda GalaxyRelated: It helps slow the galaxies’ relative orbital motion during their future merger.

• Supermassive black holeRelated: It helps explain how black holes and dense stellar nuclei can sink toward galactic centers.

• Virgo ClusterRelated: It helps massive galaxies lose orbital energy as they move through the cluster.

• Tidal strippingRelated: It can shrink an orbit and bring a satellite into stronger tidal forces.

• Hierarchical structure formationRelated: It helps satellite galaxies and subhalos spiral into larger systems.

• Orbital decayRelated: It can make a massive satellite or compact object lose orbital energy while moving through a background.

• Galactic bulgeRelated: It helps massive star clusters and satellite systems lose orbital energy and sink toward galactic centers.

• Galactic diskRelated: It can transfer orbital energy and angular momentum during disk formation and satellite interactions.

• Galaxy groupRelated: It can slow group galaxies and help them sink toward the group's center.

• Galaxy interactionRelated: It drains orbital energy from interacting galaxies, helping bring them together.

• Dwarf galaxyRelated: It can alter a dwarf galaxy’s orbit and contribute to its eventual merger with a host.

• Stellar streamRelated: It can alter a dwarf galaxy’s orbit before tidal forces disrupt it.

• Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal GalaxyRelated: The wake raised by Sagittarius helps slow its orbit and draw it closer to the Milky Way.

• Tidal tailRelated: It helps interacting galaxies lose orbital energy and progress toward merger.

• Galactic haloRelated: It slows orbiting satellites and helps them lose orbital energy within the halo.

• Magellanic CloudsRelated: It can alter the Clouds’ orbit as they move through the Milky Way’s halo.

• Planetary accretionRelated: It can cool the orbits of growing embryos and alter their collision environment.

• Stellar dynamicsRelated: It causes massive stars or clusters to lose orbital energy within a stellar system.

• Antennae GalaxiesRelated: It helps the two galaxies lose orbital energy and approach coalescence.

• Blue stragglerRelated: It can concentrate massive binaries toward cluster centers, shaping straggler distributions.

• Orbital migrationRelated: It can alter the motion of bodies embedded in a dense population of smaller objects.

• Intracluster lightRelated: It helps bring infalling galaxies toward the cluster center, where disruption can release stars.

• Tidal dwarf galaxyRelated: It can alter the orbits of the interacting galaxies and the fate of their tidal debris.

• Galactic barRelated: It can slow a bar as the bar exchanges angular momentum with a galaxy’s halo.

• Nuclear star clusterRelated: It can draw massive star clusters inward until they contribute stars to the nucleus.

• Satellite galaxyRelated: It can draw a satellite inward as its motion stirs the host’s dark matter and stars.

• Fornax ClusterRelated: It helps explain how massive galaxies can sink toward a cluster’s center.

• Intermediate-mass black holeRelated: It governs how quickly a candidate black hole can sink toward a galaxy's center.

• M81 GroupRelated: It helps explain how satellite galaxies can lose orbital energy within the group.

• Brightest cluster galaxyRelated: It causes massive galaxies to lose orbital energy and sink toward a cluster’s center.

• IC 1101Related: It can draw massive galaxies toward a cluster’s center over time.

• Peculiar galaxyRelated: It helps bring interacting galaxies together during a merger.

• cD galaxyRelated: It can draw cluster galaxies inward, making mergers with the central galaxy more likely.

• Interacting galaxyRelated: The wakes raised in dark matter and stars can drain orbital energy and bring galaxies together.

• Messier 15Related: It helps explain how massive stars and remnants migrate toward a cluster's center.

• Common envelopeRelated: Drag through the giant star's gas removes orbital energy and drives inspiral.

• Galaxy groups and clustersRelated: It helps massive galaxies lose orbital energy and migrate toward cluster centers.

• Satellite galaxies of the Milky WayRelated: It can cause massive satellites to spiral inward over time.