EPISODE · Dec 15, 2020 · 59 MIN
73: Blanets & Squeezars
from syzygy · host Chris Stewart
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We'll always happily talk about black holes — and today we'll extend that to things that go around black holes: blanets (black hole planets), and squeezars (stars so close to a black hole, they're squeezed by gravity). It's a stupidly epic discussion of stupidly large solar systems, stupidly big planets, stupidly fast stars on stupidly close orbits around stupidly supermassive black holes.
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73: Blanets & Squeezars
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