The Science Asylum

Are Orbits like this even POSSIBLE?! (2020x10)

Air date: May 31, 2020

We like to imagine of gravitational orbits as the conic sections: circles, ellipses, etc. That's only for two-body problems though. Let's take a look at three-body problems (and beyond) using Newtonian mechanics as well as General Relativity. How weird can orbits actually get?