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Rogue Planet Cha 1107-7626 Seen Growing At A Rate Of 6 Billion Tonnes A Second

Rogue Planet Cha 1107-7626 Seen Growing At A Rate Of 6 Billion Tonnes A Second
science10/4/2025

Observing the object over several months, they found it flared up dramatically. It's gobbling up 6 billion tonnes of mass per second.

Rogue planets – sometimes called free-floating planets – are interstellar, planetary-mass objects that are not gravitationally bound to a star or a brown dwarf, but float through space alone. They have only been discovered pretty recently, with the f... [2818 chars]