Active geology recycles nutrients and drives carbon cycle (tidal flexing sustains geologic activity)
rotation10
Near tidally locked - one hemisphere perpetually scorched, other frozen, narrow habitable twilight zone only
Organic Chemistry20
Limited organic chemistry potential
atmosphere16
Atmosphere present but composition not ideal for life (partially stripped by slow rotation)
temperature20
Extremely hot - hostile to known life forms (large moon stabilizes the axial tilt - steady seasons)
magnetic Field100
Magnetic field provides radiation protection (a large close moon may help stir the core dynamo (speculative)) — but the black hole's accretion disk bathes this orbit in hard X-ray radiation
Physical Properties
Mass
1.10x Earth (6.57e+24 kg)
Radius
1.03x Earth (6,577 km)
Surface Gravity
1.03x Earth (10.1 m/s²)
Surface Temperature
488 K (214 °C / 418 °F)
Rotation Period
26.0 hours/day (slower than Earth)
Orbital Environment
Star Type
BH-type (Black Hole)
Distance from Star
6.50 AU (972 million km)
Orbital Period
5.24 years
Atmosphere
Thin trace-gas atmosphere
Elemental Composition
Si - Silicon
22.5%
O - Oxygen
18.0%
Mg - Magnesium
15.7%
Surface Characteristics
Rocky surface with impact craters, possible volcanic features
Matched on physical properties only — no confirmed exoplanet orbits a black hole.Discovered 2020 via transit · 437 light-years awaySource: NASA Exoplanet Archive
Outside the synchronous orbit: slowly receding, like Luna (~cm per year).
Tidal braking locked the planet to its moon: one face forever moonward.
Too warm for nitrogen and methane frost and too small to hold them as an atmosphere: those ices escaped to space, leaving water ice.
Too warm for ice and too small to hold an atmosphere: the ice sublimated, leaving bare rock.
Tidal flexing melts its interior: an actively volcanic surface (Io-like).
+5 temperature: large moon stabilizes the axial tilt - steady seasons+10 geology: tidal flexing sustains geologic activity+5 magneticField: a large close moon may help stir the core dynamo (speculative)