Why is this a Earth Like?Your planet has a balanced composition with all CHNOPS elements, proper mass (1.0x Earth), and sits in the habitable zone at 19.70 AU.
Earth-like planets have the perfect combination of composition, temperature, mass, and magnetic field to potentially support complex life as we know it.
Classification Criteria:
✓ All CHNOPS elements present (C, H, N, O, P, S)✓ Mass: 1.0x Earth (0.5-2.0x range)✓ Temperature: 282K (250-320K range)✓ Magnetic field present✓ Distance: 19.70 AU (habitable zone)
Habitability ScoreExtremely Harsh
37
Contributing Factors
water50
Limited water content
geology90
Active geology recycles nutrients and drives carbon cycle
rotation10
Near tidally locked - one hemisphere perpetually scorched, other frozen, narrow habitable twilight zone only
Organic Chemistry100
All CHNOPS elements present - building blocks of life (tidal pools cycle wet and dry - a boost for prebiotic chemistry)
atmosphere40
Nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere - breathable and protective (partially stripped by slow rotation)
temperature100
Optimal temperature range for liquid water and life
magnetic Field100
Magnetic field provides radiation protection — but the black hole's accretion disk bathes this orbit in hard X-ray radiation
Physical Properties
Mass
1.00x Earth (5.97e+24 kg)
Radius
1.00x Earth (6,371 km)
Surface Gravity
1.00x Earth (9.8 m/s²)
Surface Temperature
282 K (9 °C / 47 °F)
Rotation Period
24.0 hours/day
Orbital Environment
Star Type
BH-type (Black Hole)
Distance from Star
19.70 AU (2.95 billion km)
Orbital Period
27.7 years
Atmosphere
Nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere with trace CO₂, water vapor, and argon
Elemental Composition
O - Oxygen
28.4%
Si - Silicon
22.7%
N - Nitrogen
11.4%
Surface Characteristics
Rocky surface with continents, oceans, and active plate tectonics. Diverse biomes if life present.
Matched on physical properties only — no confirmed exoplanet orbits a black hole.Discovered 2019 via radial velocity · 12 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 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).
Moon 2rings0.010% - 3.2 radii
Inside the synchronous orbit: it spiraled inward and was torn apart at the Roche limit (Phobos's fate).
Moon 3recedingIce lost: bare rock0.050% - 34.7 radii
Outside the synchronous orbit: slowly receding, like Luna (~cm per year).
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.
+4 chemistry: tidal pools cycle wet and dry - a boost for prebiotic chemistry
Habitability
✓ Conditions suitable for life detectedThis planet exhibits the necessary conditions to support biological processes, including stable temperatures, liquid water, and protective magnetic fields.