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Is there a black hole in our solar system?

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Black holes do not go around in space eating stars, moons and planets. Earth will not fall into a black hole because no black hole is close enough to the solar system for Earth to do that. Even if a black hole the same mass as the sun were to take the place of the sun, Earth still would not fall in. read more

In fact the odds of a black hole devouring our planet are estimated at one in a trillion. There are two predominant types of black hole in the universe. The first are supermassive black holes found churning at the centre of galaxies. read more

If a tiny, tiny, tiny speck of a planet (compared to the sheer size of the solar system) was gravitationally influencing the movement of planets dozens of astronomical units (billions of miles) away, just imagine what we might see if there were a great, big old black hole lurking around somewhere in the void. read more

As with most hypothetical questions, the devil is in the details. read more

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