#  Ravenous Supermassive Black Holes May Sterilize Nearby Planets 

 





May 31, 2017

 

 

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 Press coverage of a new paper in Scientific American: A new study sheds light on how damaging black holes can be to the habitability of planets throughout the Milky Way and the universe.

 Link: [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ravenous-supermassive-black-…](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ravenous-supermassive-black-holes-may-sterilize-nearby-planets/)

 Astrobites: [https://astrobites.org/2017/05/30/blown-away-by-black-holes-losing-plan…](https://astrobites.org/2017/05/30/blown-away-by-black-holes-losing-planetary-atmospheres-to-quasar-radiation/)

 *Image: This artist’s conception of a distant quasar shows how luminous they can be—an effect that would wreak havoc on nearby life. Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser Credit: [M. Kornmesser ESO](http://www.eso.org/public/usa/images/eso1229a/)*



 

 

 



 

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