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Re:What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole? by kijin on Thursday September 26, 2019 @01:22AM (#21078438)
The entire mass of Earth, compressed down to the size of a bullet. That's actually a very vivid illustration, unlike most of the other large numbers that get thrown around in astronomy.
Re:What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole? by everyone on Thursday September 26, 2019 @01:39AM (#21078512)
Its actually compressed down to a point. A singularity. The 9mm is just the radius from the point from which nothing can return.
Re:What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole? by zaarn on Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:28AM (#21079451)
For all intents and purposes of astronomic calculations, you can pretend it's 9mm in size, because A) the difference between a 9mm sized object that behaves like a black hole and a singularity with a 9mm event horizon is minimal and B) it's a 9mm black hole going 50km/s+, most math will result in the extinction of human kind anyway.
Re:What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole? by chopin on Thursday September 26, 2019 @03:03AM (#21078877)
To be fair, we don't know what is behind those 9mm. Einstein's equations predict a singularity but afaik there is consensus that those don't hold there.