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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.

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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.

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.