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Do any of the stars in the centre of our galaxy harbour planets?

I'm also curious as to whether there are a ton of star/planet collisions in the centre.. I'm assuming there would be massive, massive explosions of stars constantly blowing themselves up.
gpt
There aren't many collisions in the centre of the galaxy - the stars are still plenty far apart from each other. You do get some mergers in places like dense globular clusters, but not all that many. However, rather than direct collisions, the gravity of a star coming even vaguely close may disrupt the orbits of the planets and throw them out of the system. So you might not expect many planets in this inner region.

In terms of explosions - in the Milky Way, much of the new star formation is going on in the spiral arms, so the central bulge tends to have older dimmer calmer stars, while the spiral arms have more big bright young stars that burn themselves out quickly and go supernova.

But you do have a higher intensity of background radiation because of the large density of stars, which may have some effect on life and evolution - although it's not completely clear which way this would go.