NMSU researcher’s team finds supermassive black holes may help form massive planets

NMSU astronomer Wladimir Lyra and collaborators found that disks around supermassive black holes may create massive planets, stars and black holes through a newly modeled formation process.

Computer simulations suggest the outer regions of active galactic nuclei could produce enormous dust-built planets — and possibly stars and intermediate-mass black holes Minerva Baumann, New Mexico State University LAS CRUCES - A popular myth about b... [6388 chars]