More potential evidence for a possible ninth planet in our solar system…

“A new study published in Nature Astronomy reveals that wide-orbit planets are not merely anomalies but rather natural by-products of a chaotic early phase in planetary system development. Researchers from Rice University and the Planetary Science Institute utilized complex simulations to illustrate this process.”

https://blog.joshuniverse.com/blog/wide-orbit-planets-formation-and-planet-nine-evidence/

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    7 days ago

    Maybe a dumb question, but shouldn’t there be further and further such planets going out to the max AU that the sun’s gravity allows planetary bodies to be gravitationally bound? But they’re all just dark and increasingly impractible to detect? If not, what prevents this in practice?