The bold question-askers at What If explore why having a black hole in our Solar System would be a catastrophic scenario.

The possibility that black holes may be lurking within the solar system is a tantalizing prospect for astrophysicists. Recent studies suggest that primordial black holes, which are believed to ...

One Black Hole May Pass Through Our Solar System Every Decade, Study Finds. Published Sep 17, 2024 at 11:31 AM EDT Updated Sep 18, 2024 at 1:54 PM EDT. By .

If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, then at least one may fly through the solar system per decade, generating tiny gravitational distortions.

In a study published Tuesday in the journal Physical Review D, physicists at MIT say the presence of a tiny black hole speeding through the solar system could be identified by the gentle ...

If our sun were replaced with a black hole of the same mass, our solar system would orbit similarly to how it does now, but it would be a lot colder. We don’t know what matter looks like inside ...

If a black hole did wander into our solar system, the largest effects would be gravitational. And those effects would depend on the mass of the black hole. You may like ...

Officially named 3I/ATLAS, the comet was confirmed as having originated outside of Earth's solar system on July 3, according ...

An illustration of a black hole visible in our solar system. (Image credit: buradaki/Getty Images) If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, ...