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We Have Ploonets. We Have Moonmoons. Now Hold Onto Your Hats For… Blanets – ScienceAlert
It’s easy to think of black holes as voracious destruction machines, slurping up everything in their immediate vicinity. But that’s not always the case. The environments around active supermassive black holes are complex, and last year, a team of ast
It’s easy to think of black holes as voracious destruction machines, slurping up everything in their immediate vicinity. But that’s not always the case. The environments around active supermassive black holes are complex, and last year, a team of astronomers showed that there’s a safe zone around each supermassive black hole in which thousands of planets could be orbiting.
Now, the team led by Keiichi Wada of Kagoshima University in Japan has given a new name to these black hole planets – “blan…
