Where Did The Mysterious JUMBOs in The Orion Nebula Come From?

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JUMBOs, Jupiter Mass Binary Objects. Over 500 of them were detected in the Orion Nebula by JWST. But where did they come from? How did they form and why are they in binary pairs? My guest has a good guess about it.

🟣 Guest: Jessica Diamond

📜Formation of Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects through photoerosion of fragmenting cores
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.09159

00:00 Intro
01:34 JUMBOs
14:02 Photoerosion
24:57 Questions from Patreon community
31:26 Side track
34:30 Final thoughts


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