Hubble's 'impossible' planet explained? Gas giants may have formed fast in early universe

It's surprising that I don't see any view that the protoplanetary disk that formed this exoplanet may have come much later. Since this is a binary consisting of a pulsar and a white dwarf, there was very likely an accretion disk that took form late in these stellar lives, and before the events that gave us both the pulsar and the WD.
 
Exoplanets formed and still form, and will always form eternally, in the "early universe" then, now, and then (sic)....
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"Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial." -- Thomas S. Kuhn.
 
Wait a minute - if the gas cloud can form 2 stars, why can't it also form a "gas giant" at the same time? Isn't there a continuum of gas blobs that goes from planets to brown dwarfs to red dwarfs and onward through our Sun towards super giant stars? And, aren't most of them in some sort of binary or trinary grouping? Why be surprised that a gas giant can form, but not be surprised that a brown dwarf can form?
 

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