Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

If a black hole did wander into our solar system, the largest effects would be gravitational. And those effects would depend ...

If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, then at least one may fly through the solar system per decade, generating tiny gravitational distortions.

In a study published Tuesday in the journal Physical Review D, physicists at MIT say the presence of a tiny black hole speeding through the solar system could be identified by the gentle ...

However, the effect of an asteroid-mass primordial black hole would be no more significant than an actual interstellar asteroid passing through the solar system—which means almost no effect.

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they're streaming through the universe, doing their own thing," said researcher Sarah Geller.

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. ... MORE: Binary star system found near the Milky Way's black hole: An 'amazing' discovery, astrophysicists say.

Instead, they say that if primordial black holes exist and make up most of dark matter, "then one must travel through the inner solar system every one to 10 years." ...

If a black hole did wander into our solar system, the largest effects would be gravitational.And those effects would depend on the mass of the black hole. "The black holes that we're confident ...