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<\/div>Behold The Blanet<\/h2>
A team of scientists was studying how new exoplanets could form around black holes when they ran into a serious problem: figuring out what to call the class of theoretical worlds.<\/p>
But fret not. They now have a name, ScienceAlert <\/a><\/em>reports<\/a>, and that dubious name is “blanet.”<\/p> The actual process, according to the Kagoshima University scientists behind the research<\/a> submitted to The Astrophysical Journal<\/em> for peer review last week, would be fairly similar to how regular planets form around stars, just under more extreme conditions.<\/p> As dust and gas whirl around a black hole, it could gradually clump together to form a new world — just so long as it’s far enough away to not get gobbled up by the black hole’s gravitational pull.<\/p> Though the processes of blanet and planet formation are fairly similar, the end results can be extremely different.<\/p> For instance, the research found that blanets could theoretically grow to be anywhere between 20 and 3,000 times more massive than Earth, which Science Alert<\/em> notes is the highest possible mass a world can reach before it stops being a pla- sorry, a blanet, and is instead classified as a brown dwarf<\/a>.<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>We Have Ploonets. We Have Moonmoons. Now Hold Onto Your Hats For… Blanets<\/a> [Science Alert<\/em>]<\/p> More on exoplanets: <\/strong>NASA Scientist Ponders Life on Planets Orbiting Black Holes<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post Astronomers Say That Planets Orbiting Black Holes Are Called “Blanets”<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Read the rest here: Behold The Blanet A team of scientists was studying how new exoplanets could form around black holes when they ran into a serious problem: figuring out what to call the class of theoretical worlds. Continue reading Blanet Nine<\/h2>
Blanet Of The Bapes<\/h2>
Astronomers Say That Planets Orbiting Black Holes Are Called “Blanets”<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"