Discovered by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large
But what’s really interesting about b Centauri b is that the binary system to which it belongs is extremely hot and massive (the two stars are six to ten times heavier than our sun), which “doesn’t make sense for planets to have formed within it. As such, scientists are perplexed at how this new world formed.”
Scientists say the heat from the two stars in the b Centauri system should work against the formation of new worlds or planets. Likewise, the sheer mass of the system should have a negative effect as well . . .
One of the most perplexing things about this new world is the fact that the large mass and heat from the two stars should be creating enough high-energy radiation that anything around it starts to evaporate faster. However, this planetary discovery goes against everything we currently know about planet formations.
Yet another discovery goes against everything we currently “know”! That’s because ideas about planetary evolution are not based in observational science (after all, no one has observed a planet forming!) but on historical science (not directly observable, testable, or repeatable).
And because the vast majority (but not all!) of astronomers and cosmologists start with the wrong starting point of stellar evolution and millions of years, they come to wrong conclusions about what happened in the past." AIG