Research determined that planet X, or 9, is invisible from Earth and can only be seen with the largest digital camera in the world. Some astronomers maintain that it could also be a primordial black hole.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) confirmed that a new planet It is located beyond the orbit of Neptune, in the confines of the solar system. The discovery was made by Konstantin Batyginfrom the California Institute of Technology, after a decade of research in the Kuiper belt.
He planet X or 9as experts called it, is actually a massive planet which is altering the orbital trajectories of trans-Neptunean objects (TNOs), frozen bodies which are found in the most distant regions of the solar system.
an unknown body
There is astronomers There are more skeptics who claim that it is not actually a new planet, but that the anomalies found in that place could simply be due to a primordial black hole that was formed as a result of the gravitational collapse of a star or due to failures in the current understanding of gravity.
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POT
This supposed planet still continues invisible from Earthsince current telescopes are not capable of seeing planets that are not found illuminated by the light of the Sun. However, the POT is already working with the major digital camera of the world, which will scan space with a great level of detail.
The future of this discovery
He Star is not only of great importance for the future of astronomy, but also challenges the limits of human understandingsince the patterns in the orbits of these bodies are due to the gravitational influence from a planet not yet identified.
The experts assured that in their models they considered different factors, such as gravitational forces exerted by the gas giants of the solar system, the disturbances generated by the galactic tide of the Milky Way and the passage of stars next. However, the results were only seen with the incorporation of this new body.
Source: Ambito
