The Gravitational Disruption of the Solar System

The solar system has been here for four and a half billion years. And so ever like we do not look like the kind of place that a black hole passed nearby at any point in the last almost five billion years. What we can say is for the best of our understanding, there hasn't been a high mass object that passed through our solar system. But we do think that there has been some sort of gravitational disruption that has flung large amounts of comets in at various points.

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