New word of the day: Blanet—a member of a class of exoplanets that directly orbit black holes.
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@cstross goes well with the recent article about black hole suns
@cstross sounds like a shortened mocking name for the Internet. "I saw that bullshit on the Bla-bla-bla Net".
Actually, that sounds like the perfect name for Facebook, Tiktok et al.
@cstross Oh great, now astrophysics has both blazars and blanets, but the bl bits of the portmanteaux (?) mean different things 😩
Blanet Janet Orbits Sgt A*
Planet Clare orbits a Planck Star
@cstross a missed opportunity for "blahnet" imo
Hope to see blanets in a future book. If not you, maybe @gregeganSF
@cstross That doesn’t sound healthy.
@cstross So, they have a 🎶 Black Hole Sun 🎶 Won't you come ...
@cstross Ooh, and just a couple of wikipedia steps to “Necroplanetology“! https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab7fa0
@zarfeblong @cstross shhhh don't give him ideas
You know 20 years from now somebody is going to be all "At last, we have created the necroplanet, as featured in Charles Stross's novella Please For The Love Of Cthulhu Don't Create The Necroplanet You Absolute Stooges"
@cliffle @zarfeblong @cstross I'm waiting to find out if the Skullularity is still going to make a showing
@flippac @cliffle @zarfeblong Not in this book …
@cliffle @zarfeblong @cstross
"Look, I know the novel ended with "And so the necroplanet swallowed all life in decades of utter torment, FIN", but if we don't do it, Anthropic would."
@cstross And presumably, if orbiting a neutron star, a nanet.
