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Say There Were a Black Hole in Our Solar System: How Would We Find It?
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:03:16
Publish Date: 2020-05-14 15:28:25
Description: Last year, scientists published a paper with an iconic diagram: a black circle representing, to scale, a 5-solar-mass black hole—and the size of the hypothetical Planet Nine if it were a black hole instead of a planet. So, if Planet Nine really is a black hole, how would we find it? Physicist Edward Witten, famed theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study, has an idea. All it requires is an army of small, laser-launched spacecraft with really accurate clocks.
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