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Do gravity wells more closely resemble the top-left or top-right, in pic related?
black = vaccuum potential due to gravity
yellow = massive object (SMBH, star)

Wouldn't it make more sense if the deviation from the vaccuum due to an object's gravity well "integrated" (averaged?) to zero? It doesn't make sense that something unipolar would only ever be negative WRT vaccuum potential.

Would the top-right diagram explain how gravity waves work - rises and falls is gravitational potential?
And for the bottom diagram, would the discrepancies between the two curves explain the "dark matter" (here the object on the red curve appears less massive than the blue curve) of orbiting objects?