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Planets may lurk in harshest environments. Not that Novell NetWare server you can't unplug – black holes

Wednesday 27th November 2019 03:17 GMT swm

Stable orbits around a black hole?

I thought that there were no stable orbits near a black hole. Maybe an orbit 10 light years out would be stable for a while (more than 10 years).

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