The solar system’s ninth planet, the mysterious object astronomers are looking for, may not be a planet at all, but something completely unexpected.
A 2016 hypothesis suggests that this mysterious ninth planet, long hidden from the scientific world, could offer unexpected lessons about the nature of gravity and the dynamics of the solar system.
The gist of the hypothesis is that Planet Nine should be a huge planet, about ten times as massive as Earth, somewhere in the far outskirts of the solar system.
This hypothetical planet has been proposed as an explanation for the strange orbits of objects in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune. These objects appear to move in the opposite direction to the planets in our solar system, raising many questions among astronomers.
Since then, astronomers have made great efforts to find Planet Nine, but so far have not been successful. The search was carefully conducted and almost half of the night sky was studied, but the mysterious planet still remained hidden.
But now new research has emerged that raises even more questions about the existence of Planet Nine. Researchers have presented a surprising hypothesis: what if Planet Nine isn’t a planet at all, but rather another type of gravity masquerading as a planet?
According to this new theory, inconsistencies in the motion of objects in the outer regions of the Solar System can be explained by modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND).
According to MOND, objects from the Kuiper Belt are actually being pulled through the rest of our Milky Way, and not by an undiscovered planet.
“MOND is very good at explaining galactic-scale observations,” study author Harsh Mathur, a theoretical physicist at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, said in a study. rack. “But I didn’t expect this to have any noticeable effects on the outer solar system.”
This means that the mysterious force said to be caused by Planet Nine may actually be the result of changes in our understanding of gravity and dynamics.
