Why do all the planets orbit the sun horizontally instead of vertically, or at random angles?

Question

Why do all the planets orbit the sun horizontally instead of vertically, or at random angles?

In: Physics

Answer 1

Imagine it’s like making pizza dough. The spinning, pushing and pulling force causes what once was a sphere of dough to spread out into a flat circle. But the middle is incredibly dense, so it’s pulling all that back in at the same time.

That’s the way it was explained to me at least