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An artist’s concept of a section of the Kuiper Belt.

The odd movements of Kuiper Belt objects first tipped astronomers off

to a possible Planet Nine.

Photograph: M. Kornmesser/ESO

Is There a Black Hole in Our Backyard?

Astrophysicists have recently begun hatching plans

to find out just how weird Planet Nine might be.

NYT

September 11, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/
science/astronomy-planet-nine-black-hole.html

Kuiper belt        USA

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/
solar-system/kuiper-belt/overview/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/
science/quaoar-rings-kuiper-belt.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/
science/astronomy-planet-nine-black-hole.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/
science/exploring-the-solar-system.html - July 30, 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jun/28/
beyond-pluto-the-hunt-for-our-solar-system-new-ninth-planet

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/01/
681414470/4-billion-miles-from-the-sun-
a-spacecraft-sends-early-pictures-of-a-tiny-planet

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/31/
675722234/way-beyond-pluto-an-icy-world-is-ready-for-its-close-up

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/30/
science/nasa-new-horizons-kuiper-belt.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/
science/nasa-new-horizons.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/11/
584944598/photos-these-images-were-captured-nearly-3-8-billion-miles-from-earth

https://www.npr.org/2011/02/04/
133498152/why-the-former-planet-pluto-got-demoted

the solar system’s outer reaches        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/30/
science/nasa-new-horizons-kuiper-belt.html

 world > Quaoar        USA

Quaoar (pronounced KWA-wahr,

and the name of the creator god

for the Indigenous Tongva people

who live around Los Angeles)

orbits the sun in the Kuiper belt,

a region of frozen debris

beyond Neptune that includes Pluto.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/
science/quaoar-rings-kuiper-belt.html

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