Question on gravity in zero-gravity environment?

Don K

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I think of gravity as a dent in space-time. Space-time as I understand it, is a thin sheet and anything with mass causes a dent in the sheet and pulls anything nearby towards it.

Therefore, anything with sufficiently large gravity will pull smaller objects towards it - does this mean that if we made a very large object in space (zero-gravity around it) and had a small tiny pea nearby, would the large object pull the small pea towards it?
 
strictly speaking, both objects would "pull" each other... but if one is much bigger than the other, the effect on the large object isnt noticable... if there were only two objects in the entire universe, then, regardless of their positions, motions or distance, sooner or later they would end up together
 
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