Rogue planet gains 6 billion tonnes per second in record growth spurt

The creative fraudulent planet was caught, there are 6 billion tons of gas and dust per second. Such behavior blurs a line Between planets and stars, assuming that both can be formed in similar ways.

Fraudulent planets, free gas balls, not tied to any parent star, it seems that Extremely commonAnd it may even exceed the number of stars that we see in the galaxy. But astronomers still do not understand whether they are formed as planets in orbit around the star, and then expelled to roam the galaxy alone, or they can form themselves as stars themselves.

Victor Almendros-Abad In the Palermo Astronomical Observatory in Italy and his colleagues, they now saw a fraudulent planet called CHA 1107-7626, passing a phenomenal surge of growth.

The planet first attracted the attention of astronomers in 2008, because there was a primitive planet disk around it. Almendros-Abad and his team began to observe the planet with a very large telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile in April this year, but in June he suddenly began to consume a substance almost 10 times higher than the rate, and this retained this over the next two months.

He reached growth rate, which was previously noticed only in stars, such as our Sun, which has more than 100 times more mass.

“This tells us that the process that forms the stars is very likely to form these objects,” says Alendros-Abad. “It also means that when we think about the formation of a star, we also need to think about it [rogue planets].

In order to take into account this growth rate, Alendros-Abad and his team believe that a mechanism similar to the one in the stars should be in a game where strong magnetic fields direct the material through a narrow channel from the volume of gas and dust outside it. But it is unclear how exactly, how or why the planet suddenly began to consume a much larger mass.

Such such growth processes suggest that stars and planets are even more similar than we thought, says Alendros-Abad. “Every time we look at this [rogue planets]This tells us that we do not know where the difference between stars and planets. There should be some chemical imprint, but we have not yet found a stone about how to distinguish the scenarios of formation. ”

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