Researchers believe black holes are flying through our solar system.

In a new article in the scientific journal Physical review d A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA, has proposed a theory that is not entirely new, but still unusual.

Is PBH the mysterious dark matter?

Based on telemetry observations, researchers suspect that microscopic “primordial black holes” (PBHs) could be flying through our solar system. These tiny black holes would be so dense they could compress the mass of an asteroid into a single atom.

As such, they will be real forces. And the MIT team believes the findings will provide new clues about the nature of “dark matter.” This is the previously unproven substance that science believes doesn’t interact with light or radiation, but makes up 85 percent of the universe.

According to MIT, these black holes could be making up some, and possibly all, of dark matter. To prove their existence, the team examined fluctuations in Mars' orbit that could be caused by black holes circling.

Mars is particularly suitable for observation.

Mars was an obvious choice because it’s a “high-resolution region of space,” says David Kaiser, a physics professor at MIT. Because precise telemetry has been used in the Martian environment for decades, “scientists know the distance between Earth and Mars to within about ten centimeters.” Explains.

In contrast, precise measurements in the region are possible. According to theory, because of their high density, PBHs could exert enough gravitational forces on celestial bodies in our solar system to explain at least part of the observed effects of dark matter on the motion of stars and galaxies.

PBH has tremendous power.

As MIT has roughly calculated, a person encountering a PBH from a distance of about one meter would be instantly pushed about six meters away. If such a black hole flew a few hundred million kilometers past Mars, it could cause the planet’s orbit to wobble by about a meter.

The team tried to make a projection of flybys of the Earth and the Moon, but failed. The numbers weren’t clear enough because there are many other dynamics in the solar system “that could be acting as a kind of friction and smoothing out the wobble,” admits lead author Tong Tran of Stanford University.

PBH is difficult to detect.

Ultimately, even confirming such a “wobble” wouldn’t prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that a PBH exists. Co-author Sarah Geller of the University of California, Davis, adds that although black holes “don’t live in the solar system,” they could be accelerating “every decade or so by a certain angle.”

“In fact, it's surprisingly good that astronomers are good at finding much lighter objects in our solar system, like small asteroids,” says Geller. Space.com website Quoted. However, “direct observation of a small black hole with a telescope would probably show nothing at all,” she admits.

Primordial black holes are a hypothetical class of black holes that may have formed shortly after the Big Bang. Unlike ordinary black holes, which are formed by the collapse of massive stars at the end of their life cycle, primordial black holes are thought to have formed very early in the universe through quantum fluctuations and high matter densities. Research suggests that a PBH could have formed within the first second after the Big Bang.