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A black hole about the size of a grapefruit and ten times the mass of Earth. There will be searches in the solar system

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For several years, astronomers have suspected that there is another massive object in the solar system that no one has not seen before. Now, however, they have a plan on how to check if there is another planet with a mass of 5-10 Earth masses behind the orbit of Neptune, or a small … black hole. For several years, astronomers have been observing the peculiar behavior of the cluster transneptunal objects (TNO). The elongated orbits of these objects seem to indicate the presence of one more massive object in the outer solar system that gravitatively affects them. Calculations indicate that all these orbits could be explained by the presence of the massive ninth planet of the Solar System. This hypothetical planet, the so-called Planet 9 would orbit the Sun hundreds of times greater than the Sun-Earth distance. Of course, this is an original and controversial theory, which is why some scientists are inclined to attribute the peculiar behavior of TNO to a cluster of much smaller cosmic ...