> Blanets are planets that form in the accretion disk around a sufficiently large black hole.... [T]hey can be heated by either radiation from the black hole's accretion disk, or (this is whacky) the blueshifted cosmic microwave background if they're close enough to the hole.
Mindbending! Makes me wish I went into astronomy rather than tech, and not for the first time.
Mindbending! Makes me wish I went into astronomy rather than tech, and not for the first time.