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Black holes as big as atoms might be speeding through the Solar System

Primordial black holes, which are smaller than their better-known cousins, visit the inner Solar System once a decade, simulations suggest.
Computer artwork of the Solar System, with the planets orbiting the Sun

Perturbations of the planets caused by tiny black holes should be visible roughly once a decade, astronomers estimate. Credit: SciePro/Science Photo Library

Microscopic black holes might whizz through the inner Solar System once a decade — and scientists should be able to detect them1.

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Nature 633, 743 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02975-5

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  1. Tran, T. X., Geller, S. R., Lehmann, B. V. & Kaiser, D. I. Phys. Rev. D 110, 063533 (2024).

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