Talk:Jupiter-mass binary object
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They don't exist
[edit]Recent research suggests that these objects don't exist. Hobbema (talk) 09:36, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
- added, but because the Nature article is paywalled it's just one sentence for now. Artem.G (talk) 13:59, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
- The original paper
- Portegies Zwart, S., Hochart, E. Why wide Jupiter-mass binary objects cannot form. Nat Astron 9, 957–959 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-025-02609-4
- However this paper claims that previous models explaining the formation are incorrect, rather than providing evidence against the observations. Johnjbarton (talk) 14:00, 11 August 2025 (UTC)