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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 .

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 ...

However, the effect of an asteroid-mass primordial black hole would be no more significant than an actual interstellar asteroid passing through the solar system—which means almost no effect.

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 ...

They also found that the black hole has consumed at least half a solar mass of matter from its closer star. This discovery holds plenty of potential for understanding the formation and evolution ...

Instead, they say that if primordial black holes exist and make up most of dark matter, "then one must travel through the inner solar system every one to 10 years." ...