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"Designated TOI-2109b, the planet takes just 16 hours to orbit its
host star, as opposed to the earlier record-holder, which orbited its host star in 18 hours.TOI-2109b is called an “ultrahot Jupiter”
because it, like Jupiter, is a gas giant, but it orbits so closely to
its host star that its dayside is as hot as the surface of a small star!
The planet’s short orbital period is a consequence of a well-known rule
of celestial mechanics called Kepler’s Third Law of Planetary Motion.
Planets close to their host stars must orbit those stars very quickly.
In fact, astronomers think that TOI-2109b is so close to its star that
its orbit is slowly decaying, not unlike “bathwater circling the drain.”
They think they might be able to observe subtle changes in the planet’s
orbit in just a couple of years.
This particular exoplanet also has implications for the age of the
universe, as secular astronomers were very surprised to find hot
Jupiters and ultrahot Jupiters that have already begun “death spirals”
into their host stars. In 2019, Sky & Telescope said this about another hot Jupiter (WASP-12b) whose orbit is noticeably decaying:
In context, “the last moments” of exoplanet WASP-12b’s inspiral is estimated to be a few million years. This may seem like a long time, but it is a figurative “blink of an eye” for a planet thought to be billions of years old. Hence, as the above quote demonstrates, secular astronomers thought it extremely unlikely they would be able to observe death spirals of more than one hot Jupiter or ultrahot Jupiter. Yet multiple hot Jupiters with decaying orbits have been observed. Another ultrahot gas giant is losing its atmosphere so quickly that even secular scientists acknowledge that it should no longer have an atmosphere after billions of years. Yet it does have an atmosphere—and a substantial one at that!
Exoplanets often seriously challenge secular planet formation scenarios, and multiple observations of hot gas giants with decaying orbits are surprising if these planetary systems really are billions of years old." ICR