Showing posts with label Dwarf planets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dwarf planets. Show all posts

Friday, November 28, 2025

Is it possible that researchers found the first black hole star? And the new member of our solar system: Ammonite.




“Artist’s impression of a black hole star (Quasi-star) (not to scale). Mysterious tiny pinpoints of light discovered at the dawn of the universe may be giant spheres of hot gas that are so dense they look like the atmospheres of typical nuclear fusion-powered stars; however, instead of fusion, they are powered by supermassive black holes in their center that rapidly pull in matter, converting it into energy and giving off light. Credit: T. Müller/A. de Graaff/Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.” (ScitechDaily, A Tiny Red Dot in Deep Space May Be a New Kind of Cosmic Monster”)


The little red dot in the dawn of the universe could be a black hole star. The black hole star forms in cases where. The symmetrical gas layer starts to orbit the black hole at a speed. That anchors it around the black hole. The black hole star gets its glow from the gas that glows. Because dark and visible matter interacts with that shell.  

That causes glow that is similar with glow that form around Sgr A*. The black hole star will be red. Because redshift stretches light. Another thing. What we must realize when we observe black holes. It is the massive redshift.  That makes them look like. Being at a longer distance. Than they really are. 

The black hole star will be much larger than normal stars. The black hole inside it. Gives extremely high power energy. To that shell. So if that red dot really is the black hole star. It gives new visions. To model the universe and its highest energy objects. The black hole star is one of the still hypothetical forms of black holes and their interactions. 


But if small primordial black holes exist, they can change the game. 


It’s possible that the black hole stars are not big at all. It’s possible that Earth-mass black holes can form a black hole star around them. The Earth-mass black hole will be about the size of one centimeter. The Schwarzschild radius of an Earth-mass black hole is about 9mm. And that means it could form a black hole star that looks like a red dwarf. 





An artist's conception of Quaoar and its small moon Weywot. Not pictured are the dwarf planet's two known rings. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech) (Space.com, The weird ringed dwarf planet Quaoar may have an extra moon, astronomers discover)




“Artist's impression of Quaoar rings. Credit: Paris Observatory” (ScitechDaily, Space Mystery: Unexpected New Ring System Discovered in Our Own Solar System)





Ammonite. The new member of our solar system. “A newly found icy object, Ammonite, may be a 4-billion-year-old fossil from the Solar System’s edge—and it’s casting doubt on the Planet Nine theory. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com” (ScitechDaily, ‘Ammonite’: A Mysterious Deep Space Fossil That Could Rewrite Solar System History)





Quaoar is not only a dwarf planet with rings in the Kuiper Belt. Dwarf planet Haumea (136108 Haumea) with its rings. “Haumea looks like the perfect skipping stone in this artist's depiction of the dwarf planet, complete with its newly discovered rings”. (Image credit: IAA-CSIC/UHU)(Space.com, Surprise! Bizarre Dwarf Planet Haumea Has Rings)

If Planet X is real, and it's a primordial black hole. The ice surface can deny the X-ray emission that should uncover it. The only thing that is certain is those mysterious anomalies in Neptune's trajectory. Those anomalies. Made researchers search for a new planet. And they found Pluto. Pluto was close to the point where astronomers calculated its position. 

Pluto was too small to cause those anomalies. So, sometimes researchers search for Planet 9 in the Kuiper Belt. But there is no mark on it. So could that thing be the primordial black hole? That hides in some structure. We believe it is a dwarf planet. The Planwt 9 is simultaneously returning to the astronomers' discussions. And researchers hope. That they get an answer for those anomalies in the Neptune trajectory. 


Researchers found a new world at the edge of the Solar System called Ammonite. The problem is that Ammonite is a strange plutoid. A dwarf planet where gravity is not strong enough. 


When a supernova explosion happens. Or a black hole’s relativistic jet hits the planet. It’s possible that this energy presses the planet or its core into the singularity. That kind of very small black hole can act like any other black hole. This means that the miniature, primordial black hole can lurk inside asteroids and some planets. In some theories. That primordial black hole lurks inside some known Kuiper Belt object. The best candidate for that role is Quaoar (or 50000 Quaoar). 

The new observations suggest that this weird dwarf planet can have an extra moon. So could Quaoar be the mythical “Planet X” or ninth planet? That causes anomalies in Neptune's trajectory? The Quaoar is regular. And it has a ring system. That means Quaoar should have a magnetic field, or Van Allen belt. Or it should have a stronger gravity field than it does. If there is no gravity field or Van Allen belt. Solar wind. And other objects’ gravity blows rings into space. Or those moons will hover them around Quaoar. Can inside Quaoar hide some primordial black hole? 

Or planet-shaped objects. It’s possible that a small black hole causes the anomalies. In the planet Neptune's trajectory. In that theory, Planet X, or the ninth planet, could be a primordial black hole. This causes another interesting thought. Could the dwarf planet Quaor's rings have some connection? With that hypothetical black hole? Or, could that dwarf planet itself involve that primordial black hole? Quaoar is a very small object in the Kuiper Belt. That dwarf planet has a ring system. And one or two satellites. 

If those miniature black holes exist. That thing can be one of the biggest advances for astronomy and physics. Those “little red dots” are one of the most interesting objects that send greetings from the dawn of the universe. 




https://arxiv.org/html/2511.02059v2



https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-of-a-real-ninth-planet/



https://www.astronomy.com/science/what-are-primordial-black-holes/



https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210216-the-massive-planet-scientists-cant-find



https://blog.sciandnature.com/2024/11/ninth-planet-may-be-black-hole-in-solar.html



https://www.livescience.com/space/planets/astronomers-discover-new-dwarf-planet-ammonite-and-it-could-upend-the-existence-of-planet-nine



https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/planet-x/



https://www.sci.news/astronomy/dwarf-planet-haumea-formation-evolution-11303.html



https://scitechdaily.com/ammonite-a-mysterious-deep-space-fossil-that-could-rewrite-solar-system-history/



https://scitechdaily.com/from-hollow-planetoids-to-earthly-anomalies-the-hunt-for-primordial-black-holes/



https://scitechdaily.com/a-tiny-red-dot-in-deep-space-may-be-a-new-kind-of-cosmic-monster/



https://www.space.com/38432-dwarf-planet-haumea-has-rings.html



https://www.space.com/astronomy/dwarf-planets/the-weird-ringed-dwarf-planet-quaoar-may-have-an-extra-moon-astronomers-discover



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_KQ14



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haumea



https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaoar


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-star


Friday, September 19, 2025

Organic molecules don’t mean life. And mysterious methane and rings in the Kuiper Belt.

  Organic molecules don’t mean life. And mysterious methane and rings in the Kuiper Belt. 




“An artist’s impression of plumes erupting onto the surface of Enceladus. Its fellow moon Titan is seen in the sky, and the distant Sun beyond. Credit: ESA/Science Office”

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has long dazzled scientists with its icy plumes that spew water and mysterious organic molecules into space, fueling hopes of a habitable ocean beneath. But new experiments suggest the story may be more complicated.”

“Researchers found that radiation bombarding Enceladus’s frozen surface could be producing many of the same organics detected in the plumes — meaning they might not come from the hidden ocean at all. This twist forces scientists to rethink how we interpret signs of habitability on icy moons.” (The Shocking Twist in the Search for Life on Saturn’s Icy Moon)



“Electron microscopy revealed chain structures resembling living organisms in meteorite fragment ALH84001” (Wikipedia, Allan Hills 84001). If those remnants are bacteria, they can be from Earth. There is a possibility that those bacteria. If they are bacteria. that came from Antarctic ice, and they traveled to the meteorite. Because its heat “called” those bacteria. Anyway, that meteorite is polluted. The temperature in Antarctica is not so low that it could keep that meteorite sterile. 




“An image of the rock named “Cheyava Falls” in the “Bright Angel formation” in Jezero crater, Mars collected by the WATSON camera onboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The image shows a rust-colored, organic matter bearing sedimentary mudstone sandwiched between bright white layers of another composition. The small dark blue/green to black colored nodules and ring-shaped reaction fronts that have dark rims, and bleached interiors are proposed to be potential biosignatures. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS” (ScitechDaily, Strange Mars Mudstones May Hold the Strongest Clues Yet of Ancient Life)

“NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered mysterious mudstones in Mars’ Jezero Crater that contain organic carbon and strange mineral textures.” (ScitechDaily, Strange Mars Mudstones May Hold the Strongest Clues Yet of Ancient Life)

“These features, possibly shaped by redox reactions similar to those fueled by microbes on Earth, may represent potential biosignatures.” (ScitechDaily, Strange Mars Mudstones May Hold the Strongest Clues Yet of Ancient Life)

Confirmed life in our solar system is limited to planet Earth. All other harbors for life are hypothetical. It’s possible that there have been some kind of lifeforms on Mars, but before there is any laboratory analysis about samples brought from Mars, nothing is more uncertain than uncertain. NASA says that there is “strong evidence” that some primitive lifeforms, like prokaryotic bacteria, could have lived on Mars a long time ago. 

Confirmation about that thing can be very difficult. If there have been some bacteria on Mars, the thin atmosphere that lets UV-radiation reach the Mars surface can destroy all genetic material. From those bacteria.  Those remnants would be hollows in stones. Without DNA or RNA, it is impossible to confirm that some form is from bacteria. 

There are strange forms in some meteorites, but the problem is that those meteorites, including Allan Hills 84001 from Antarctica, are polluted. That means those primitive bacterial fossils, if they are bacterial fossils, can be from Earth. There have also been organic materials in Saturn's Enceladus moons' icy geysers. There is a possibility that these organic materials are formed due to sunlight. 

Maybe Saturn will pull ions to Enceladus, and that can cause the formation of those organic compounds. But as we know, there is a possibility that there can be lifeforms in that icy world. Otherwise, Organic molecules can form. Because of some kind of chemical reactions that have no biological origin. 





“An SwRI-led team used Webb telescope observations (white) to detect methane gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake. Sharp emission peaks near 3.3 microns reveal methane in the gas phase above Makemake’s surface. A continuum model (cyan) is overlaid for comparison; the gas emission peaks are identified where the observed spectrum rises above the continuum. An artistic rendering of Makemake’s surface is shown in the background. Credit: Courtesy of S. Protopapa, I. Wong/SwRI/STScI/NASA/ESA/CSA” (ScitechDaily, Webb Telescope Detects Gas on Distant Dwarf Planet Makemake for the First Time)


Telescopes noticed gas on the dwarf planet Makemake. 

The surprise was that the gas JWST detected is methane. That means there are some chemical reactions on those distant worlds. Those dwarf planets like Makemake are so far away that they cannot get methane from places like Titan. And that is one of the most interesting things in the universe. There is a possibility that weak energy from the distant sun, along with some ions, can have so much energy that. It can push carbon and hydrogen together in a very low-energy but stable environment. 

 Makemake is far away from Earth in the Kuiper Belt. That dwarf planet is one of the coldest places in our solar system. That’s why existing gas is a surprise. But conditions in the Kuiper Belt are incredibly stable. Makemake can pull gases from space around it. And that thing makes it possible that those dwarf planets have a thin atmosphere. Those objects called trans-Neptunian objects TNOs are so far away from the sun that the solar wind has no force to blow those atmospheres away. And that’s why some dwarf planets like Makemake can have atmospheres. 





“Artist's impression of Quaoar with its ring and its moon Weywot” (Wikipedia, Quaoar)





“Quaoar compared to the Earth and the Moon” (Wikipedia, Quaoar)


Researchers noticed that the dwarf planet Quaoar may have another moon or some unknown ring system. Quaoar has a ring system and one known moon. That is an incredible thing, because that dwarf planet is very small. The ring system can form around that dwarf planet when its moon acts like Saturn’s and other gas planets’ rings. Shepherd moons that trap particles between them. 

The problem is that the shepherd moons are always on both sides of their ring. There is a possibility that Quaoar’s moon Weywot and its gravity can trap those particles between Quaoar and Weywot, but is that moon’s and Quaoar’s gravity so strong that they can trap those particles? 

But those rings are in the place where those planets’ Van Allen belts are. Shepherd moons from holes between rings. But the plasma ring. Around those gas giants is the thing that traps most of those particles. That means Quaoar must, or should have, some kind of magnetic field. 

That dwarf planet is mysterious. It's too small for internal nuclear reactions to form those plasma rings. Its moon seems very far away from that dwarf planet. And that is one of the most interesting things about that distant and mysterious object. 




https://phys.org/news/2025-09-discovery-moon-orbiting-mysterious-distant.html


https://scitechdaily.com/the-shocking-twist-in-the-search-for-life-on-saturns-icy-moon/


https://scitechdaily.com/space-mystery-unexpected-new-ring-system-discovered-in-our-own-solar-system/


https://scitechdaily.com/strange-mars-mudstones-may-hold-the-strongest-clues-yet-of-ancient-life/


https://scitechdaily.com/webb-telescope-detects-gas-on-distant-dwarf-planet-makemake-for-the-first-time/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaoar


Thursday, July 10, 2025

Water crystallization in low gravity and temperature can open new ways to model water.


"The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about water, planets, and life itself. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com
Scientists have uncovered a hidden structure inside the Universe’s most common ice—found on comets, moons, and interstellar dust—challenging decades of belief." (ScitechDaily, Tiny Crystals Hidden in Cosmic Ice Could Rewrite What We Know About Water and Life)

The new observations about the water crystallization can open new models for water and life in the universe. When water crystallizes at a very low temperature and under weak gravity it can form microcrystals. Those microcrystals are something that doesn’t form on Earth. The microcrystals can form a structure alone or with some liquid gas that makes it look like liquid. If there is liquid nitrogen or helium between those microcrystal bites that thing can cause a situation where those crystals can form the “icy quicksand”. 

That means those crystal ice bites behave like sand in quicksand and the liquid gas acts like water in quicksand. There is a possibility that the extremely small nanocrystals could form the liquid-looking structure on icy planets. Those new observations about water behavior open the road to making models about the lifeforms. Or, sharper saying the DNA, or mRNA controlled icy crystals can exist on some distant worlds. In those ultra-cold conditions, the DNA or RNA can make those crystals act like cells act in our planet. 

The image of Pluto from the New Horizons probe. The white structure near the pole seems to be some kind of geyser or “icy volcano”. That means Pluto's low gravity along with the Kharon moons' gravity effect and tidal forces can keep water from moving on that strange world. If there is liquid water on that dwarf planet. 



“In this image of Pluto’s surface, the red luminance corresponds to the infrared data acquired by the Ralph/MVIC instrument carried by New Horizons. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/ZLDoyle” (ScitechDaily, New Horizons Reveals Dunes Made of Tiny Grains of Solid Methane on Pluto)

That doesn’t mean. The undersurface ocean must cover the entire planet. There can be small “lakes” on that dwarf planet. Maybe most of the liquid is methane, nitrogen, and other gases. Those lakes that can hold water can be below the white cap near Pluto’s pole. 


The theory about quantum water is also interesting. 


On distant planets, water is at the minimum energy level. The hydrogen and oxygen atoms are in their maximum size. And those atoms form the Bose-Einstein condensate. There is a possibility that the weak gravity along with other effects can turn those water molecules straight and make them spin very fast. In that case, the water molecules that are very low can be unable to make bonds with the other water molecules. That means in the low temperature and low gravity it is possible that the water remains in a form that looks like liquid. 

This kind of liquid water is nothing that we see on Earth. This kind of phenomenon can be possible only in a low-pressure, lowest possible temperature, that is near 0K. And the third thing is the ultra-low gravity field. The low gravity field can keep water liquid far below zero. The thing that keeps water in liquid form is the whirls that move the water. 

If we think of dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris and their moons, their gravity is very low. And the other thing is that those objects are very thin. The third thing is that the gravitational effect of their moons like Kharon is stronger than on Earth. That can cause conditions where the whirls can keep the water liquid even in those extremely low temperatures. Tidal forces of those moons are more powerful because the dwarf planet's gravity is not very strong. 


https://scitechdaily.com/new-horizons-reveals-dunes-made-of-tiny-grains-of-solid-methane-on-pluto/


https://scitechdaily.com/tiny-crystals-hidden-in-cosmic-ice-could-rewrite-what-we-know-about-water-and-life/


Sunday, July 6, 2025

The new evidence of the existence of Planet X


"An artist’s conception of Planet 9, or Planet X, which scientists theorize orbits in the distant solar system. Image credit: Robin Dienel/ Carnegie Institution of Washington" (NASA)


Planet X is never seen. That is one of the things that we should realize. Planet X is the mysterious gravitational effect at the edge of our solar system. The existence of that object is almost confirmed in one day. And some other day that strange thing doesn’t exist anymore. The thing that makes it very interesting is that the gravitational effect that makes Neptune’s trajectory wobble and the mysterious X-ray flares in Uranus are things that can cause many speculations. 

And one of them is that. There is a planet that is colder than the plasma around the sun. If the planet’s temperature is lower than the heliopause’s temperature and the planet’s trajectory is outside that point, this kind of object can be very hard to detect. The prediction is this, if Planet X really exists it would be geologically dead. It could be the rogue planet that our sun or the outer planets Neptune and Uranus are trapped near the edge of the solar system. It’s possible that this mysterious gravitational object has gone out from the solar system’s gravitational pool. And turned into a rogue planet. 



Uranus’s X-ray flares. 





Dwarf planet Haumea with Rings and its two moons Hiʻiaka (Haumea 1) and Namaka (Haumea 2). 



Artist impression of Quaoar rings. Credit: Paris Observatory




Artist's impression of Quaoar with its ring and its moon Weywot


The primordial black hole hypothesis. 

But there is also the possibility that Planet X is something like a black hole. In some scenarios, a very small black hole can pull a shell around it. In some models, the small black hole can exist in asteroid-size objects. Or even on some planets. The small black hole must only pull dust or ice around it symmetrically. If those particles are locked around that black hole they can form a structure that looks like a regular planet. So could some of the dwarf planets in the Kuiper belt be that mysterious Planet X? 

There is one object that can be interesting about the researchers. That object is the dwarf planet Quaoar. The thing that makes that dwarf planet very interesting is its ring system. That dwarf planet should have a very weak gravity. Sometimes astronomers and I thought that some kind of plasma whirling around that small dwarf planet makes the Van Allen-belt type magnetic phenomenon that can trap the low-energy plasma that comes from the sun. Another remarkable thing is that Quaoar has a moon called Weywot. And if that artist’s impression is right, that means that this moon is quite a long distance from Quaoar. 

The third interesting thing is that the Quaoar’s temperature is 41 K which is -231.3C. There is suspicion that some kind of radioactive process warms the Quaoar. But the primordial black hole can explain that temperature. 

But there is one very wild idea. Could Quaoar be the primordial black hole that formed the ice shell around it? Maybe that thing seems very rare, or radical theory. But if the planet X is some kind of primordial black hole, can that thing be some dwarf planet that we already know? That primordial black hole can seem very innocent if it's in some dwarf planet. And then we can look at another dwarf planet: Haumea. An interesting thing is that Haumea has two moons. 

When we look at images of Haumea we see that the little world with two moons is stretched. Haumea itself looks like an egg. That thing can happen because of the fast spin. Or it can happen because some force from that thing stretches the Haumea. Those two moons should destroy Haumea’s ring system. The names of those moons are Hiʻiaka (Haumea 1) and Namaka (Haumea 2)

The primordial black hole that is in the stable trajectory and pulls particle shells around it can be very hard to separate from the real dwarf planets. If there are no objects near that thing, we cannot measure the object’s mass using those things. If that black hole pulls all dust from around it. That thing prevents astronomers from seeing dust clouds from around it. 


https://astrobites.org/2025/04/28/vulcan-pbh/


https://www.astronomy.com/science/is-planet-nine-a-black-hole-or-a-planet-harvard-scientists-suggest-a-way-to-find-out/


https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/49910160


https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2024/12/primordial-black-holes-may-be-hiding-in-planets-or-even-everyday-objects-here-on-Earth.html


https://chandra.harvard.edu/blog/node/786


https://nasaspacenews.com/2025/04/black-holes-from-the-big-bang-could-be-trapped-inside-our-planet/


https://www.rudebaguette.com/en/2025/07/were-seeing-something-massive-out-there-astronomers-detect-possible-ninth-planet-beyond-neptune-in-chilling-new-discovery/


https://scitechdaily.com/dark-matters-secret-hideouts-are-primordial-black-holes-lurking-nearby/


https://www.space.com/primordial-black-holes-cat-big-bang


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haumea


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi%CA%BBiaka_(moon)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namaka_(moon)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaoar


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weywot



Astronomers could have a model for why photons from GRB 221009A were at a high energy level.

"An illustration shows a photon from the biggest cosmic explosion since the Big Bang reaching Earth. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created...