{"id":96687,"date":"2019-09-26T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T19:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/astrophysicists-there-may-be-black-holes-orbiting-our-sun"},"modified":"2019-09-26T12:43:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T19:43:25","slug":"astrophysicists-there-may-be-black-holes-orbiting-our-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/astrophysicists-there-may-be-black-holes-orbiting-our-sun","title":{"rendered":"Astrophysicists: There May Be Black Holes Orbiting Our Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astrophysicists-there-may-be-black-holes-orbiting-our-sun2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a mind-bending new paper, researchers suggest that there could be black holes orbiting the Sun, out past Pluto.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/ninth-planet-scientists-evidence\">long speculated<\/a> that a \u201cplanet 9,\u201d in orbit very far from the Sun, could explain why other bodies in our solar system have strange, hard-to-explain orbits.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a pair of astrophysicists <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/09\/26\/solar-system-surrounded-swarm-baby-black-holes-scientists-say-10811357\/\">are suggesting<\/a> a strange twist on that idea: that a black hole \u2014 or even a number of them \u2014 could be orbiting our Sun right now, way beyond Neptune.<\/p>\n<p><b>Primordial<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This week, a pair of researchers from Durham University and the University of Illinois at Chicago published <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1909.11090v1\">a paper<\/a> outlining their theory on the pre-print server <em>arXiv.<\/em> In it, they suggest that the Sun\u2019s orbit might have captured a free-floating \u201cprimordial black hole\u201d \u2014 and it, or they, are still out there, circling the solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a mind-bending new paper, researchers suggest that there could be black holes orbiting the Sun, out past Pluto. Scientists have long speculated that a \u201cplanet 9,\u201d in orbit very far from the Sun, could explain why other bodies in our solar system have strange, hard-to-explain orbits. Now, a pair of astrophysicists are suggesting a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}