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∙ The dust clouds around supermassive black holes are the perfect breeding ground for Blanets.
About Blanets
∙ Scientists in Japan have theorised that planets could form in the massive dust and gas clouds.
Formation
∙ planets are formed when the dust and gas swirling around a young star collide and clump together.
∙ A similar process could be in play near supermassive black holes, where planets take shape inside the disc and eventually become blanets.
∙ Blanets would be able to grow and reach sizes up to 3,000 times the mass of Earth, because of the active galactic nucleus and will have to orbit the black hole at a distance of about 100 trillion km.
∙ A blanet would have an extremely long orbital period, taking around a million years to complete an orbit around its host black hole.
