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blanet
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thumb |Artist's impression of the view of the sky from a planet orbiting inside the dust disk around the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy NGC 4261.

Wikidata facts

Subclass of
exoplanet
Named after
planet
Parent body
Black hole
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start time
2019-00-00
studied by
astronomy
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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • Formation
  • Properties
  • Candidates
  • In fiction
  • References

thumb |Artist's impression of the view of the sky from a planet orbiting inside the dust disk around the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy NGC 4261.

A blanet is a member of a hypothetical class of exoplanets that directly orbit black holes.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “blanet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.