The answer is that nothing would change regarding the planets' orbits — if the black hole had the same mass as the sun, the orbits would remain the same. (Life on Earth would obviously suffer ...

The way this black hole would illuminate the planet it orbits, he argues, would constitute a potential technosignature for future SETI surveys. Professor Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor ...

Primordial black holes have now been proposed as the ... Indeed, researchers have calculated a range of different planet masses and orbits that may account of the behavior of objects like Sedna.

It appears that thousands of planets could be forming and orbiting around enormous black holes. "Planets are not only orbiting around stars, but also around supermassive black holes," explained ...

A monstrously massive black hole in a distant galaxy probably has a smaller companion that orbits it every 12 years. But that tiny partner has never been detected. Now, astronomers claim to have ...

"Like there's this idea that there's another planet out there that ... "We are orbiting a black hole already," Smethurst said. "The sun orbits the black hole in the center of the Milky Way.

A team of astronomers has suggested that primordial black holes (PBH) are passing by our solar system and wreaking havoc on the orbits of planets within it, causing them to "wobble" and "rock." ...

The two black holes, approximately ten times more massive than our planet’s Sun ... black” masses also have the most widely separated orbits of all known black holes, which is probably ...