{"id":96777,"date":"2019-09-28T11:43:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T18:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/what-if-planet-nine-is-a-bowling-ball-size-black-hole"},"modified":"2019-09-28T11:43:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T18:43:18","slug":"what-if-planet-nine-is-a-bowling-ball-size-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/what-if-planet-nine-is-a-bowling-ball-size-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"What If Planet Nine Is a Bowling Ball-Size Black Hole?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-if-planet-nine-is-a-bowling-ball-size-black-hole2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the most distant rocks in our solar system act in a way that suggests there\u2019s some massive object out there we haven\u2019t been able to see. A planet? Maybe. But why not a small black hole?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a scenario a pair of scientists describe in a new paper. Of course, they recognize that a planet is more likely than an ancient black hole unlike any we\u2019ve directly observed. But they simply want astronomers to think creatively while hunting for whatever this hypothetical object, often called Planet Nine, might be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the most distant rocks in our solar system act in a way that suggests there\u2019s some massive object out there we haven\u2019t been able to see. A planet? Maybe. But why not a small black hole? That\u2019s a scenario a pair of scientists describe in a new paper. Of course, they recognize that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96777","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}