Scientists have long tried to understand whether the so-called ninth planet (or Planet X) actually exists. And recently they came to an incredible conclusion. A new study by British astronomer Jakub Scholz and his colleague James Unwin says the mysterious object is a primordial black hole.
The existence of primordial black holes has not yet been scientifically confirmed. And at the same time, a significant part of the astronomical community believes that 80% of the entire universe consists of them.
They are believed to have emerged shortly after the Big Bang, and some may still exist today. A distinguishing feature of these black holes is that they can be very small.
According to Scholz and Unwin, this explains the anomalous phenomena recorded in the Kuiper belt. In particular, why some small celestial bodies beyond Neptune’s orbit have unusual motion trajectories, as well as an excess of microlensing events (a relatively short increase in a star’s brightness at the moment when some massive object passes between it and the observer).
To date, the existence of eight large planetary objects in the solar system has been accurately established, including several dwarf “planets,” including Pluto, Eris, Ceres, etc.
According to scientists, the so-called primordial black hole has a mass five times that of Earth. The radiation from such a hole is negligible, but around it there may be a halo of dark matter that stretches across several astronomical units.
The orbit of Planet X (or the black hole?) It is 20 times farther from the Sun than the orbit of Neptune.
However, in practice, it will be quite difficult to prove this theory, since scientists will have to literally hunt down this planet or capture a moving source of gamma rays or X-rays.
Some astronomers believe that this mysterious object flew off into the solar system about 3 million years ago, meaning it’s a wayward planet that once left its parent star.
