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.

If our sun were replaced with a black hole of the same mass, our solar system would orbit similarly to how it does now, but it would be a lot colder. We don’t know what matter looks like inside ...

But the black holes would have speeds of about 200 kilometers per second and come from outside the solar system. That’s rare for space rocks ( SN: 9/12/19 ).

Gravitational wave observatories could detect primordial black holes speeding through the solar system. Sep 2, 2024. Primordial black holes could kick out stars and replace them.

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 ...