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- Black hole in orbit around planet could be sign of advanced civilization https://phys.org/news/2024-08-professor-black-hole-orbit-planet.html 22 comments
- Planets around a black hole? https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/nion-paa112519.php 6 comments space
- Planets Around a Black Hole?―Calculations Show Possibility of Bizarre Worlds https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/science/2019/20191125-cfca.html 11 comments space
- There Could be Planets Orbiting Around Supermassive Black Holes https://www.universetoday.com/144157/there-could-be-planets-orbiting-around-supermassive-black-holes/ 4 comments space
- Closest black hole to earth is 1500 light years away and it could have planets around its companion star https://www.newscientist.com/article/2338403-closest-black-hole-to-earth-is-just-1500-light-years-away/ 24 comments space
- Blanet: A new class of planet that could potentially form around supermassive black holes, astronomers say. https://astronomy.com/news/2020/08/a-new-class-of-planet-can-form-around-black-holes-astronomers-say 14 comments space
- Some planets may orbit a supermassive black hole instead of a star: the typical mass of planets would probably be large – about 10 times more massive than Earth – and there could be as many as 10,000 of them around a single black hole https://www.newscientist.com/article/2217144-some-planets-may-orbit-a-supermassive-black-hole-instead-of-a-star/ 12 comments space
- Theoreticians in 2 different fields defied the common knowledge that planets orbit stars like the Sun. They proposed the possibility of thousands of planets around a supermassive black hole. "With the right conditions, planets could be formed even in harsh environments, such as around a black hole,” https://www.cfca.nao.ac.jp/en/pr/20191125 36 comments science
- Supermassive black holes might have habitable exoplanets orbiting around them. But new research shows such a black hole would not only warp time (like Gargantua in Interstellar), but also boost the energy of the planet's incoming light to the UV range, making it very damaging to any living cells. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/10/could-life-survive-on-a-planet-orbiting-a-black-hole 9 comments worldnews
- Supermassive black holes might have habitable exoplanets orbiting around them. But new research shows such a black hole would not only warp time (like Gargantua in Interstellar), but also boost the energy of the planet's incoming light to the UV range, making it very damaging to any living cells. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/10/could-life-survive-on-a-planet-orbiting-a-black-hole 25 comments space