Planets Being Pulverized Near Giant Black Holes?

Planets Being Pulverized Near Giant Black Holes?: "A planetary derby may be playing out around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, according to a new theory that could help solve a dusty mystery.

Almost all of the large galaxies observed so far have central black holes, each billions of times the mass of our sun.

But about half of these cosmic monsters are obscured by dense rings of dust, and astronomers have been uncertain where all this dust comes from and how it's remained intact over time."

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