Super Massive Brown Dwarfs That Should Be Stars But Aren't

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a discovery of several brown dwarfs that seem to be way too massive to exist

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[ElReyMaravilloso]

I absolutely love every episode you release, extremely insightful to watch. Keep em coming Anton, it's crazy the content and research and explanations you give to such detail. Thank you for everything you do!

[ricksanchezismyspiritanima]

Anton, your simply top notch. One of my favorite channels as you cover all my interests with style, grace and plain old research. Keep being you! Awesome!

[minotaurbison]

tip: when searching for info about brown dwarfs, be sure to include the word star or make sure the safe search feature is on....

[chrisstargazer]

Almost at 1 million ! Go Anton go go go !! You're the best !

[odievk]

"That's no Brown Dwarf, it's a space station." - Kenobi

[BentReality.]

Great. You always open a door into information I can study further. You explain things basically but not boringly. You are a teacher and the classroom is the world.
Thank you.

[iamanempoweredone]

Anton, we’re all campaigning for a million subscribers for you. Keep up the good work.

[totherarf]

It never ceases to amaze me how much we can find out through looking at emitted EMR!

[rppdfire]

Nature never breaks the rules, it just knows every single loop hole.

[theq]

The gray area between star and brown dwarf will probably turn out to be due to several factors, not just mass and fusion reaction type but also probably chemical composition of it which could determine how likely certain fusion reactions take place.
An example is what if some process occurs that depletes the core of deuterium before fusion can begin? Something like a 'planetary scale' girdler sulfide like process which pushes deuterium into the outer layers? Or what if it formed from lithium and deuterium poor gas clouds?

[tayzonday]

I’m a massive brown dwarf who should have been a star too!

[ThyBlackWings]

Another wonderful episode, Anton. It really amazes me how each window to Universe we open, we find something unexpected, rich and beautiful. This gives you a very different perspective to what we face in our daily lives on Earth. A big fan of your channel, keep going on!

[MCsCreations]

Pretty interesting indeed. Sounds like a dead red dwarf... But those shouldn't exist yet.

[roeva]

It never ceases to amaze me just how beautiful the universe is. Despite many, many years of looking up, it still fills me with wonder just the same.

[icecow]

I've always thought that brown dwarfs start with the ability to fuse Deuterium and end when they start to fuse Hydrogen. This gives straight forward cutting points - if this object for some reason can't reach density to fuse hydrogen, it's not a star - be it rotational speed that hinders it or whatever else.
We have found neutron stars like J0740+6620 that seem to be almost too heavy to exist, but still, since they haven't collapsed in a black hole they are considered neutron stars without some arbitrary mass. i don't see a reason why this shouldn't be the same with brown dwarfs.
If it can fuse deuterium, it's a brown dwarf. If it can fuse hydrogen, it's a star.

[Simmonsumers]

Universe: Your simple human laws will not bind me!

[rubhan]

Sounds like they need a wider definition but with sub types of classifications. But if we don't know what is actually going on or is causing those massive brown dwarfs from behaving such I guess it's hard to classify them in groups.

[bobshort]

Your videos are so interesting, informative, and visually stunning, Anton. You should really have your own TV series. That's how great you are. Thanks for all your hard work ☮❤

[danhnguyen-fneb]

When I was in school a couple of lifetimes ago we were taught that failed stars were either Red Dwarfs or Brown Dwarfs, with the Red ones being a little bigger and hotter than the Browns. That was all the info we needed then, but then we blinked and everything changed. I do have a question though. With these 5 or 6 Brown Dwarfs that are category breakers Anton said that at least one was super close to it's parent star and tide locked. Meaning it's like our moon and has very little if any rotation. Could the lack of rotation be the reason it hasn't lit it's star furnace even though it has enough mass to be a star?

[tumblebugspace]

Since theories of star formation have had to be revised so many times from updated observations, I’d like to hear about some different models that have been proposed. Thanks for posting!