A black hole can hang out on the outskirts of the Solar system and to impersonate a mysterious ninth planet. To such conclusion the American astronomer, known for its exotic hypotheses.
A small black hole the size of a grapefruit on the outskirts of the Solar system? Perhaps this is not a fantasy but a phenomenon that astronomers can detect in the coming years. The last five years, many astronomers are busy looking for a mysterious ninth planet, or planet X, which I suspect is far beyond the orbit of Pluto. These searches are conducted from January 2016, when American scientists announced that at a great distance from the Sun is 700 times farther than the orbit of the Earth, — there may be the ninth planet, which professes to be the gravitational influence on the next, already open ice body.
“I Think the planet actually find in the next two to five years. For this you need knowledge of the orbit and enough observing time on the telescopes,” — said then the author of the hypothesis Konstantin Batygin “Газете.Ru”.
Later, in 2018, astronomers discovered on the outskirts of the Solar system unusual object, whose existence also indicates the existence of the so-called ninth planet. Scientists have conducted several computer simulations and none could explain the evolution of the orbit of the body other than the presence on the edge of the Solar system’s ninth planet, predicted in 2016 the American astronomers by Batygin and brown.
However, allusions to the discovery of the mysterious planet, which the pioneers could qualify for the Nobel prize, yet, despite participation in her search thousands of Amateur astronomers who view numerous images of the sky.
Other astronomers offered a hypothesis, which breaks down some of the ideas about the evolution of the Universe, explains the difficulties with the discovery of the ninth planet, and at the same time gives hope for a speedy solution to the paradox.
According to scientists from Harvard University, an invisible object might not be the ninth planet, and the so-called primordial black hole.
Scientists have long been familiar with black holes stellar mass which ends the evolution of heavy stars. Also science known supermassive black holes billions of times heavier than the Sun lying in the centers of galaxies like ours.
Primary black holes of very small mass still has not met in nature, but scientists do not exclude that such holes could remain in the Universe since the Big Bang. A co-author with his student Amir Ceragem became known in astronomical circles, Harvard scientist Abraham Loeb. It is famous for its often fantastic hypotheses, which often attract attention in the scientific world. Loeb is known, to PR��measure its catastrophic predictions about the future of the Earth. In may 2017 Loeb with two other astrophysicists has criticized the inflationary model of the universe is popular today, the theory describing the physical state and the expansion of the Universe at an early stage of the Big Bang.
In his article, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical journal, scientists have suggested that if instead of the planets from astronomers on the edge of the Solar system lurks a primordial black hole, then it can detect new telescope, which will be commissioned already next year – the Observatory Faith Rubin in Chile (LSST). The uniqueness of this telescope is that it will be able to see the whole sky twice a week with the highest level of sensitivity.
If a primordial black hole at Solar system is, then it is possible to detect, while watching got on her way comets. According to scientists, faced with a comet, a black hole should tear apart their gravitational attraction and thus cause short bursts due to accretion of matter from the comet. These outbreaks, it is best visible in the optical part of the spectrum, and will be able to register a new telescope in the first months of its work.
According to calculations, if a hole exists, then such events must happen a lot.
“We estimate that, if the Ninth planet is a black hole, it can be detected by the LSST telescope due to the short flares from small bodies from the Oort Cloud that can be committed with a frequency of at least several per year,” explained the authors.
“Being a great deal of controversy about alternative explanations for the anomalous orbits of bodies observed in the outer part of the Solar system. One of the hypotheses – the possibility that the ninth planet may be a black hole the size of a grapefruit and weighing 5-10 Earth masses,” explained Siraj.
