They are formed in the same way as stars and planets, namely by the gravitational collapse of a gas cloud. 

Unlike white dwarfs, brown dwarfs are protostars and not 'dead stars'. This makes them more like T Tauri stars, which are pre-main sequence stars and also have unstable burning phases for hydrogen.
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