Astronomers spot rogue planet devouring six billion tonnes of gas and dust every second

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Astronomers spot rogue planet devouring six billion tonnes of gas and dust every second  Astronomers say the rogue planet is devouring dust and gas at six billion tonnes per second - behaviour usually seen in stars.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/10/06/astronomers-spot-rogue-planet-devouring-six-billion-tonnes-of-gas-and-dust-every-second  Euronews Next is a future-focused news section covering global innovation, science and technology with a European perspective. Our dedicated team of journalists aims to educate and inspire today’s leaders by providing them with analysis and insights into the people and organisations shaping our future

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00:00We were trying to study how fast is the rate of material

00:29getting into the object and what we suddenly found is that there was a very strong growth

00:35of material that was impacting the central object and when we saw this it's when we

00:41realized that it was a very special phenomenon.

00:45This is the first time that this kind of phenomena has been observed in such a low mass object.

00:59In astronomy, when we talk about quick things, for instance, we say the star formation happens

01:10quickly and quickly we mean a million years.

01:16So quickly is very relative.

01:18But this object went from gaining material at a very different rate, so at a low level,

01:28let's say, to gaining material hundreds of times more efficiently in days.

01:37That is like something that happens in a matter of days and months in astrophysics is crazy.

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