Out There Is There a Black Hole in Our Backyard? Astrophysicists have recently begun hatching plans to find out just how weird Planet Nine might be. Share full article 203 ...

So, if Planet Nine really is a black hole, how would we find it? Physicist Edward Witten, famed theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study, has an idea.

Black holes were thought to arise from the collapse of dead stars. But a Webb telescope image showing the early universe hints at an alternative pathway.

Located 5,000 light-years from Earth, this black hole is much closer than the supermassive one at the Milky Way’s center, which also lies in Sagittarius but about 27,000 light-years from us.