Reply to post: Re: The standard model of planet formation

Astroboffins baffled after spotting solar system with great gas giant that shouldn't exist

Scroticus Canis

Re: The standard model of planet formation

Seems the most likely explanation. One eddy in the collapsing gas and dust cloud just made it to stellar mass, the other didn't. Probably halted as the red dwarf reached ignition mass and density dispersing the rest of the cloud via radiation pressure.

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