Imagine a planet so hungry, it swallows billions of tonnes of matter every second — and it doesn’t even orbit a star! Scientists have recently observed a rapidly growing ‘baby planet’ in space named Cha 1107-7626. Unlike a star, this object is a free-floating planetary body.

What has truly amazed astronomers is the planet’s extraordinary growth rate: it consumes around 6 billion tonnes of material every second! Although it’s 5 to 10 times larger than Jupiter, it falls well below the threshold for star formation (80 Jupiter masses) or even brown dwarf classification (13 Jupiter masses). Yet, its behaviour is anything but typical.

Astronomers estimate that Cha 1107-7626 absorbs roughly 10 Jupiter masses of material per year, and this intense feeding continued for at least two months. The f

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