What’s hiding in the outer reaches of our Solar System has always been a great mystery for the astronomers and scientists. Astronomers were assured that Planet Nine might exist beyond Jupiter and it might have a great effect on the other planetary bodies present within the Solar System.

Previously, scientists found that something strange was occurring to the orbits of a bunch of space rocks that was revolving the Sun. Scientists assumed that this might be happening due to the presence of a huge planet, known as Planet Nine.

However, according to a latest study, some of the farthest stellar bodies in our Solar system aren’t being affected by Planet Nine, rather another puzzling object that lies deep in the echoes of space. This candidate is responsible for the cosmic unsteadiness.

Planet Nine’s existent is largely deduced from the atypical orbits of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) which exist in the vast space between Neptune and the rest of the cosmos. Some of the TNOs share, amazing highly-elliptical orbits and are assembled in one direction. The idea was a planet up to four times wider than Earth is revolving lonely out at the boundary of space in the dark, affecting the TNOs.

Another explanation that has been written in the study and presented in the Astronomical Journal, hints the six known objects in the Kuiper Belt, all of which have oval-shaped orbits that looks in the same direction, could be affected by other trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) and not by a giant planet, i.e. Planet Nine. A team from the American University of Beirut and the University of Cambridge concludes that a disc of small icy bodies that comes with a connected mass as much as tem times that of Earth is liable for the esoteric orbits.

Astronomers have been preoccupied by the idea a giant planet might be lying outside Neptune, right at the brink of our cosmic neighborhood. However, after calculating, modeling and reproducing the interactions between TNOs and a giant icy disk, two professors from the American University of Beirut, suggest that if a disc of icy debris that is present beyond Neptune is huge enough, it would readily liable for the eccentric orbits of the TNOs previously reported due to its joint gravitational effects.