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Dimitri Veras. The fates of Solar system analogues with one additional distant planet, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2016). DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2170

The solar system could be thrown into disaster when the sun dies if the mysterious ‘Planet Nine’ exists, according to research from the University of Warwick. Dr Dimitri Veras in the Department of Physics has discovered that the presence of Planet Nine – the hypothetical planet which may exist in the outer Solar System – could cause the elimination of at least one of the giant planets after the sun dies, hurling them out into interstellar space through a sort of ‘pinball’ effect...