Blanet
Hypothetical planet that orbits a black hole / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A blanet is a member of a hypothetical class of exoplanets that directly orbit black holes.[1]
Blanets are fundamentally similar to other planets; they have enough mass to be rounded by their own gravity, but are not massive enough to start thermonuclear fusion and become stars. In 2019, a team of astronomers and exoplanetologists showed that there is a safe zone around a supermassive black hole that could harbor thousands of blanets in orbit around it.[2][3]