TOI-5205b: A Forbidden Planet That Shouldn't Exist

A planet the same size as Jupiter has been found around a surprisingly small red dwarf star about 285 light-years from our solar system.

Planets like TOI 5205b, aren’t supposed to exist around small low-mass red dwarf stars like this one.
The host star, TOI-5205, is just about four times the size of Jupiter, yet it has somehow managed to form a Jupiter-sized planet, which is quite surprising
Based on our nominal current understanding of planet formation, TOI-5205b should not exist—it is a ‘forbidden’ planet.” TOI-5205b was discovered in data from NASA’s alien planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
TESS finds planets using the transit method. Whenever a planet passes in front of its parent star, that star’s brightness slightly dips. By taking measurements of the light curve the presence of a planet can be inferred.
With TOI-5205b, blocks a whopping seven percent of its host star’s brightness.
That deep dip is crucial because it makes TOI-5205b fertile ground for observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which could study its atmosphere and help astronomers better understand how its weirdly giant planet formed.

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[baconboi]

Maybe it got ejected from its host star system and got caught in the stars orbit?

[Supeere]

Tf was this? I've seen the title. I want some information. But this whole video was just a reading of a title...