Dusty Accretion Disks around Supermassive Black Holes May Be Secret Planet Factories
Astronomers propose that the dust-rich tori surrounding active galactic nuclei (AGN) -- the energetic cores of galaxies powered by feeding supermassive black holes -- behave much like the protoplanetary disks that spawn planets around young stars.
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