Why electron circulating in an orbit must spiral inwards?

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Orbiting electrons have a constant acceleration towards the centre but why must it radiate photons as it accelerate?

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Due to Maxwell's equations.
 
Yeah, too bad an electron's behavior cannot be described using classical physics, though.

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