If gravity travels at finite speed, when gravity from an object interacts with something far away, what direction is the force?

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Does it get pulled towards the location that the object was when it originally emitted the gravitational force or where it is at the point in time when the force reaches the other object, or somewhere else altogether?

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Related: https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/458136/123208 – PM 2Ring Oct 28 '19 at 05:58
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Typically (although not always) the force points to the actual real time position, not to the delayed (retarded position). See this question (not the answers) for details: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/492870/does-static-gravity-follow-spacelike-geodesics – safesphere Oct 28 '19 at 06:51

If gravity travels at finite speed, when gravity from an object interacts with something far away, what direction is the force?

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