How do rogue planetary-mass objects, celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size, come into existence? An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University ...

These bridges then collapse under their own gravity, forming independent PMOs, with some even emerging as paired binary systems. "The Trapezium Cluster is the ultimate PMO factory — its crowded ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by mysterious, planet-sized objects drifting freely through space, unattached to any star. These cosmic wanderers, called planetary-mass objects (PMOs), weigh less ...

These tidal bridges eventually collapse into dense filaments ... Frequent disk encounters in dense environments like the Trapezium Cluster could generate hundreds of PMOs, explaining the observed ...