KnowraDisk instabilityLinked fromLinked fromThe 9 pages that link to Disk instability, each with the reason it gives.All 9Related 3Compared with 6Hot JupiterCompared with: It offers an alternative route to forming the giant planets that later become hot Jupiters.Planet formationCompared with: It offers a direct alternative to building giant planets around solid cores.Core accretionCompared with: It forms giant planets by gas fragmentation rather than by first growing a solid core.Gas giantCompared with: It offers an alternative route to giant-planet formation without first building a large solid core.Nebular hypothesisCompared with: It contrasts with gradual growth by collisions and accretion.Planetary-mass objectRelated: Disk fragmentation can produce objects near the upper planetary-mass range.Substellar objectRelated: Disk fragmentation may produce objects spanning giant-planet and brown-dwarf masses.Giant planetCompared with: It offers an alternative route to giant planets, especially where rapid formation is difficult for core accretion.Herbig Ae/Be starRelated: Instability may explain episodic accretion and structures seen in some circumstellar disks.