In the Media

MIT physicists have discovered that "black holes the size of an atom that contain the mass of an asteroid may fly through the inner solar system about once a decade” and could cause planets or large moons slightly off course, reports Clara Moskowitz for Scientific American  “As it passes by, the planet starts to wobble,” says Sarah R. Geller '12, SM '17, PhD '23. “The wobble will grow over a few years but eventually it will damp out and go back to zero.”