[gttalbot]

I find the anthropomorphisms of "swallowed" and "ate" and "cheated death" so annoying that it's hard to read the article. I really wish science writers would tone this nonsense down. It gets in the way.

[chongli]

What would you prefer? The astrophysical process you’re referring to is called accretion [1]. It is a single word that covers many different situations that are all the result of the same underlying phenomenon: gravity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_(astrophysics)

[laxd]

'Halla is “a forbidden planet of sorts,” said Marc Hon'

This guy obviously knows how to talk to big media. But maybe NYT is not the right place for you to read science news?

[Geezus_42]

NYT isn't the right place to read much these days. Just a bunch of old racist/transphobic neo-liberal trust fund babies writing nonsense. There are many more higher quality leftist oriented websites.

[oehtXRwMkIs]

Like where?

[mandmandam]

You could paste the text into GPT3.5 and ask it to do just that.

I imagine it won't be long before that's an add-on, so you don't even have to leave the page. "Hemingway this up for me", and boobs your uncle.

[sjcsjc]

Amusing autocorrect ;-)

[wfhBrian]

Metaphor is the basis of language, with the human body being the most accessible reference.

[6502nerdface]

I wonder if the title is making a pun about eating a Jewish variety of leavened bread.