Black Holes Closer to Earth

Space Sciences

Date : Sept. , 2023

Source : Science Alert

Somewhere out there, lurking in the corners of the galaxy, an estimated 10 million to 1 billion stellar mass black holes are thought to hang out, dark and mysterious.

As closed as 150 light-years away, in the constellation of Taurus, a team of astronomers has found that there could be two or three stellar mass black holes hiding therein.

Read the Science Alert Article

Read the original article in the Royal Astronomical Society

PLANET 9

Cosmology

Date : Sept. , 2023

Source : Science Alert

Scientists Think an Earth-Like Planet May Be Hiding in Our Solar System

The behavior of trans-Neptunian objects indicates (according to current physical laws, i.e. Gravitation/General Relativity) the presence of a hidden world. This celestial object would be no greater than 3 times the mass of the Earth and no farther than 500 astronomical units ( 7,5 x 1010 km) from the Sun.

Read the Science Alert Article

Read the original article in the Astronomical Journal