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Cannibal stars at the heart of the Milky Way stay young in a gruesome way (www.space.com)

submitted 8 months ago by m3t00 to c/science

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hate when authors assign human behaviors to natural phenomena. black holes don't experience hunger. let alone kinship to food. they should assign natural behaviors to humans more often. downvoting

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[–] Orbituary 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I agree with your take. Science journalism is hot garbage.

[–] Audalin 4 points 8 months ago

There's good journalism as well, e.g. Quanta Magazine, Scientific American &c.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I wouldn't mind the analogies if people didn't treat them like fact. It's supposed to help people understand things; instead they just over anthropomorphize