And yet another threat to the Pale Blue Dot
Black holes could bump asteroids our way
NewScientist news service Mar. 10, 2008
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A physicist at Lebedev Institute in
Moscow suggests that if all dark
matter is black holes, they would
likely pass through the asteroid
belts in our galactic backyard.
Since a meter-sized primordial black
hole can have the mass of the Earth,
it would need only to pass near an
asteroid to knock it out of a safe
orbit and towards our planet....
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