New massive brown dwarf discovered

Phased light curves of ZTF J2020+5033 in five different bandpasses, with wavelength increasing from top to bottom. Credit: El-Badry et al, 2023 Astronomers report the discovery of a new massive brown dwarf using the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). The newly detected object is about 80 times more massive than Jupiter and orbits a low-mass star. The finding was detailed in a paper published July 28 on the preprint server arXiv.

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