Jupiter-sized objects in Orion Nebula baffle scientists. The new entities, nicknamed ‘JuMBOs’, are neither stars nor planets. And they shouldn’t exist, researchers say. (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Vampire@hexbear.net to c/space@lemmy.ml

2 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] bloopernova@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

The article says that they're binaries, and that the prevailing scientific opinion says they were ejected from young star systems as they form.

I'd like to see the gravitational context in which 2 Jupiter sized masses are flung out of a system together.

Maybe it's rare and we're seeing those few times it happened?

(No I'm not saying it's aliens. Just that I want to understand how a binary leaves a star system. Wouldn't the ejection gravity "assist" also fuck up the binary attraction?)

[-] roomey@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Just consider the binary as a single object, and it's easy enough to imagine it getting flung out.

this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023

13 points (100.0% liked)

Space, the final frontier

2252 readers

1 users here now

c/space Rules

Submissions must be related to Space
No sensationalist/ misleading/ unscientific content
No spam
No low-effort or meme images

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ml