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What stellar formation, discovered by Mayor and Queloz, shares the 2019 Nobel Prize with Peebles' cosmic theories?

  • Exoplanets around sun-like stars

  • Black holes in binary star systems

  • Neutron stars in far galaxies

  • Supernovas in outer galaxies

Answer

Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars other than the Sun. In 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star, 51 Pegasi b. Their discovery shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Peebles for his work on cosmic inflation.
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