Planets Could Form in Turbulent Edges of Active Galactic Nuclei

New simulations suggest the outer edges of gas-rich accretion disks around active supermassive black holes could resemble planet-forming disks, allowing dust to clump via streaming instability and form millions of Jupiter-mass planets tens of parsecs (a few tens of light-years) from the black hole; these planets would likely migrate outward, and gravitational lensing could help detect them, though observations are still in early stages.