Planet 9 Could Be a Black Hole?! | SciShow News

Two scientists have proposed that Planet Nine could actually be a black hole, and a handful of telescopes observed a distant black hole absolutely destroying a star!

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Sources:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/planet-nine-may-actually-be-black-hole
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.11090.pdf
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/07/primordial-black-holes

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-tess-mission-spots-its-1st-star-shredding-black-hole
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab3c66
https://tess.mit.edu/science/

Images:
http://mediaassets.caltech.edu/evidence_of_ninth_planet
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10545
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Hole_in_the_universe.jpg
https://www.nasa.gov/content/fermi/overview
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-tess-mission-finds-its-smallest-planet-yet
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69163440
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13237
https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/a-scientist-discusses-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-gm1141945915-306141902
https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/dogs-pets-character-labrador-dog-golden-retriever-and-husky-cartoon-vector-isolated-gm1068869952-285919317
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blue-glowing-interstellar-energy-in-space-gm1094036060-293619736