Scientists Are Now Close to Finding a Mysterious Planet
That Explains Strange Cosmic Phenomena, Study Reports
"Scientists have now excluded 78 percent of the search space for the
hypothetical Planet Nine, significantly narrowing down the possible
location of the planet that could explain some of the strange
phenomena of our solar system—if it even exists.
The Planet Nine hypothesis proposes that there’s an undiscovered
planet lurking at the far reaches of our solar system, and that this
could explain the strange orbits of around half a dozen objects at its
outer edges. These Extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) mostly
tend to cluster together as they get closer to the sun and their orbits
are all oddly tilted. The gravitational pull of another, massive planet
could explain these observations.
No one’s actually seen this mysterious ninth planet, but a preprint
published on arXiv has significantly narrowed the search field and
explains that Planet Nine existing is still the researchers' preferred
hypothesis."
See:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak38...nding-planet-9