SciShow Space: Planet 9 Could Be a Black Hole?! | SciShow News

Teacher or professor: SciShow Space
Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: Two scientists have proposed that Planet Nine could actually be a black hole, and a handful of telescopes observed a distant black hole absolutely destroying a star! SciShow Pin of the Month: https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/planet-nine-may-actually-be-black-hole https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.11090.pdf http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/07/primordial-black-holes https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-tess-mission-spots-its-1st-star-shredding-black-hole https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab3c66 https://tess.mit.edu/science/ Images: http://mediaassets.caltech.edu/evidence_of_ninth_planet https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10545 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Hole_in_the_universe.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/content/fermi/overview https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-tess-mission-finds-its-smallest-planet-yet https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69163440 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13237 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/a-scientist-discusses-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-gm1141945915-306141902 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/dogs-pets-character-labrador-dog-golden-retriever-and-husky-cartoon-vector-isolated-gm1068869952-285919317 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blue-glowing-interstellar-energy-in-space-gm1094036060-293619736


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