What makes "planet X" so interesting?
When we are talking about "planet x" (1)we should rather talk about "object x" or "object 9", and that object what is also called as "planet 9" or "ghost planet", because there are no straight observations about that mysterious object, what causes the anomalies to the trajectory of planet Neptune. Is it possible that the strange details, what NASA uncovered from the clouds of planet Uranus when it re-analyzed the old data, what is collected by (2) telescopes are also caused by the mysterious "object x"?
There are many times told that something very heavy is locating at the edge of our solar system. The size of that object is about 5-20 earth mass, and that thing is mentioned as the planet or black hole, which is about the size of the football or grapefruit (3). The suspected size of this hypothetical black hole depends on the source, and sometimes it is mentioned as the size of a football or bowling ball.
And sometimes the searching for that object is very intensive. So why astronomers are looking for some planet at a very cold and dark area in the solar system?
One thing is real, the large objects can use as the gravity slings. What researchers would do with the gravity sling, what is at the outer edge of the solar system? The gravity sling that is in the Kuiper belt is one of the most interesting things that we can imagine. That allows turning the probes 90 degrees and gives them the ability to orbit the sun at the Oort cloud and Kuiper belt, and that would give the same time dramatic data what Cassini spacecraft gave from the Saturn.
The massive object at the outer edge of the solar system allows bringing samples from the Kuiper belt to Earth. But it has a more conventional way to use.
If the probe, what is sent to the edge of our solar system can use natural turner of the trajectory, that thing allows us to save fuel, and this gives the probe able to make more maneuvers and change trajectory more often than if the change of the trajectory would make by using a rocket. Also, the gravity sling, which is locating at the outer layer of the solar system allows sending probes to research interstellar space, and make observations and analysis of the particles, what is coming from the other stars.
But what if that object is a black hole? The answer is that the small-size black hole can use as gravity sling, which would give the probe an extremely powerful punch. The small black holes are behaving in the same way with the larger ones, and that makes possible to benefit the radiation that comes from transition disk as the power source. If that radiation would be targeted to the satellite, that satellite can relay that energy to the Earth by using a powerful laser or maser rays, and this thing could give the powerful energy source to entire our planet.
Even the wormhole is not existing, the black hole can sling the craft to the interstellar space, but if the material like gas or dust will be driven to the black hole by using ion cannons. That thing can make possible to make the solar sail, which uses the gamma-ray and material jet what comes from transition disk for giving power to the interstellar probe. So this kind of thing is making "planet x" or "object x" so interesting.
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine
(3) https://www.livescience.com/tiny-ancient-black-hole-planet-nine.html
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine#/media/File:Planet_nine_artistic_plain.png
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