New observations from the James Webb Telescope reveal processes that play a crucial role in planet formation. In a vast cloud of gas and dust, sometimes called a star nursery, a small area reaches for one reason or another a critical density which leads it to collapse onto herself.
Around the star, the residual gas and Dust form a disk which rotates in the equatorial plane. This is where the planets will form, in the few million years following the birth of the star. In other words, supermassive stars “ sculpt ” the protoplanetary disks of their neighbors.