Something Invisible Is Pulling Objects Beyond Neptune
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Something massive may be hiding beyond Neptune — but astronomers still don't know exactly what it is. For years, unusual objects in the outer solar system have shown orbital patterns that helped inspire the Planet Nine, or Planet X, hypothesis. But the discovery of the strange distant object 2023 KQ14, nicknamed Ammonite, has complicated the mystery and opened new questions about what shaped this remote region of our solar system. Subaru researchers describe Ammonite as a remarkably stable object that could preserve information about the solar system's earliest history. Could there really be an undiscovered ninth planet beyond Neptune? Could something far stranger, such as a hypothetical primordial black hole, produce a gravitational influence without ever appearing like a planet? Or are astronomers seeing the ancient gravitational fingerprints of something that disappeared billions of years ago? Now the search is entering a new phase. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun its 10-yea
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