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No, but also maybe yes, but it's way over my pay grade as a physicist. In short, I think the fact that gravitational systems have negative specific heat capactiy is very relevant.

As gravitational systems lose energy, the "temperature" of the ensemble of particles goes up. (I.e. objects with smaller orbits have higher velocities.)

It is probably not exactly an accident that this relationship holds for blackholes as well: the hawking radiation formulas suggest a larger and larger temperature for blackholes with smaller and smaller event horizons. The hawking radiation stuff is built upon entropy / temperature relationships so I think there is actually some kind of connection there.

There might even be something baked into the energy conditions / bianchi identities of GR that is manifesting in that way, but I'm speculating.




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