Signs of a hidden Planet Nine in the solar system my not hold up

    The evidence towards a 9th planet at the edge of our solar system might be fake according to more recent studies. Previous findings showed that a bunch of objects in the edge of our solar system are being drawn into a cluster by an invisible planet around 10 times the size of Earth. This unseen planet has been named Planet 9 or Planet X. However a new study of 14 of these remote objects shows no evidence of clustering, which removes the main reason to believe in a 9th planet. Caltech planetary scientists Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin used some these objects to help find some of the properties of this planet and found its orbit to be between 500-700 times the size of Earth's, or between 16-23 times larger than Neptune's orbit. Old studies only relied off of a handful of objects we found where we looked, Gary Bernstein states "Its important to know what we didn't see, in addition to what we did". Bernstein's team then ran 10 billion simulations with the objects and got the same results each time. Many astronomers and scientists disregard the chance of a 9th planet yet others are more optimistic since we have yet to check everywhere. The absence of any light or presence of a planet in that area, yet its gravity exists, suggests that Planet 9 could be something along the lines of a black hole or something else.

    This is a nice surprise to find out there is a good chance we have a 9th planet in our solar system. Even through previously found evidence was proven false in the simulations they ran, clustering of these far off objects keeps happening and suggesting the presence of a planetary body. It's insane how large the predicted orbit of this planet is said to be and how it even remains in orbit around the sun. Even though this is something nice to have found out, it's still strange how we haven't found a signature or pinpoint location of the object because even black holes emit radiation and let us know its there.

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