Oxford-led astronomers using DESI found 546 bulgeless galaxies with feeding black holes sit on the same black hole-to-stellar mass relation as bulged ones. A bulge usually signals past mergers, so the result favours growth fed by bars and spiral arms, if that proxy holds.
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Researchers who let supernova debris spread unevenly matched the element ratios of odd Milky Way halo stars as well as or better than a hypernova model did. That undercuts the chemical case for hypernovas, though MIT's Anna Frebel says they remain plausible.
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Work presented at the European Geosciences Union assembly in Vienna models whether compressed rock sits beneath Phobos' largest crater, part of an effort to read the little moon's interior before Japan's MMX mission goes there to sample it.
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In MNRAS, Ege University's Mutlu Yildiz reports solar models that swallow a planet of five to 10 Earth masses matching interior structure and low surface lithium in the same run, a fit that needs an independent detection before it means much.
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Astronomers report helium moving unexpectedly fast long after AT2024wpp peaked, which they read as surviving stellar structure. That complicates the tidy version of tidal disruption.
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- Confidence46