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Letter: More tell-tale signs of an ancient black hole?

Published 14 April 2021

From Julia McKillop, Wokingham, Berkshire, UK

The article about the possibility of a small, primordial black hole in our solar system makes me wonder: could it be responsible for the Kuiper belt, in the same way that the Sun-Jupiter Lagrange points seem to be responsible for the placing of the asteroids? (3 April, p 34)

Issue no. 3330 published 17 April 2021

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