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NASA is watching an exoplanet shrink under a tremendous force

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1 trillion grams per second
There must be a better way to say this
- I assume you mean one octillion of femtograms?
- I guess one billion kilograms doesn't sound as cool?
  
  one billion kilograms has the same problem - it is ambiguous, because you have to guess whether you are using short or long scale.
  you could say million tonnes, but ton is not SI unit and is again ambiguous, because there is many different tonnes.
  correct presentation that isn't open to interpretation is 1 x 10⁹ kilograms.
- 1 megatonne
- 1 teragram?
  
  I must be broken. I read teddygram after reading it correctly twice. Huh
Source for this article, which includes the preprint, why don't they include these in articles anymore, dammit.
To give a sense of the phenomenon's speed, it's shrinking almost as fast as NASA's earth science budget.

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