Posted on 03/17/2021 5:59:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
They may not be black or holes.
Some astronomers believe there is a massive planet, far beyond the orbit of Neptune, orbiting the sun — but after years of searching, scientists have not found this theoretical world, which they've dubbed "Planet Nine."
This has spurred theorists to consider a radical hypothesis: Perhaps Planet Nine is not a planet but rather a small black hole that might be detectable from the theoretical radiation emitted from its edge, so-called Hawking radiation.
For centuries, astronomers have used variations in planetary orbits to predict the existence of new planets. When a planet's orbit doesn't quite line up with predictions based on everything else we know about the solar system, we need to update our physics (by, say, getting a better theory of gravity) or add more planets to the mix. For example, scientists' inability to accurately describe Mercury's orbit eventually led to Einstein's theory of relativity. And, on the opposite end of the solar system, strange behaviors in the orbit of Uranus led to the discovery of Neptune.
In 2016, astronomers studied a collection of extremely distant objects in the solar system. Called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), these tiny, icy bodies are left over from the formation of the solar system, and they sit in a lonely, dark orbit beyond that of Neptune (hence the name).
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Where’s the hole?
It was taken at night...................
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Also, the earth is flat and the universe rotates around it...
That’s in addition to human-caused global warming and the oceans are about to wash over us...
Statistically probable that a baby black hole would have been aborted.
Id rather have planet 9 turn out to be baby back ribs...
Mmmm, meat...
Thanks for the Planet-X link, Civ.
My pleasure.
And the Universe is expanding until it runs out of space and time.......................
This guy is where I first heard this theory, which is pretty mind-blowing
My biggest worry is that it might run out of one of these before the other...
Although, long since, I have already run out of space for all the junk I've aggregated since 1933...
At least that is what the wife tells me...frequently...
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