Black hole blasts may transform ‘mini-Neptunes’ into rocky worlds

On: February 28, 2018

A team of astrophysicists and planetary scientists has predicted that Neptune-like planets located near the center of the Milky Way were transformed into rocky planets by outbursts generated by the nearby supermassive black hole.

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