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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Things we talked about in this episode:
The Blanets paper
On Interstellar and real physics
Black hole photo from 2019
The recent Squeezar paper
S2’s orbit around the supermassive black hole in our galaxy
New speed and distance record holder S4714