Tiny black hole or 'Planet 9'? Scientists theorise on gravitational influence beyond Pluto

Scientists have orised presence of a gravitationally relevant object interacting with ors on edge of solar system, and while many have proposed ory of 'planet nine' to explain this, ors want to find out if it is a tiny planet-mass black hole. According to researchers, observation of or objects close to it suggests that re was something big generating gravitational pull.

Researchers at Harvard University in partnership with Black Hole initiative have expressed a desire to test if object lurking in system is actually such a 'primordial' black hole. For purpose of research, y could study data from Legacy Survey of Time ( LASST)  as evidence as acceleration flares, which are created when objects get too close to black hole.

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“In vicinity of a black hole, small bodies that approach it will melt as a result of heating from background accretion of gas from interstellar medium onto black hole,” Amir Siraj of Harvard said in a statement.

Waiting for LASST

Meanwhile, Avi Loeb, co-author of study, said that once y melt, small bodies are subjected to total disruption by black hole, followed by accretion from tidally disrupted body onto black hole.  However, LASST hasn’t begun yet but scientists believe that survey would be able to spot such flares. refore, y still do t kw when hardware would begin scanning sky.

A 'planet-mass' black hole could exist with a mass of between five and ten times that of our own planet. Being a black hole, object would be much, much smaller than Earth, and researchers suggest it could be as tiny as an orange, though that is t an indictment of its gravitational power.

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