Submitted by bizzehdee t3_11plcyj in askscience
PlaidBastard t1_jbzeutw wrote
Reply to comment by JonseyCSGO in Is the percentage of mass in the parent star, comparable between different systems? by bizzehdee
Oh, yeah, it's actually pretty widely agreed that most stars are in multiple systems, although I have no idea how many of those are on the scale of thousands or more AUs. Close-in binaries and trinaries churn everything up in such a way as to ensure planet formation doesn't really happen, according to lots of simulations and some pretty solid first principles physics justifying all of that.
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