Black holes could bump asteroids our way

March 11, 2008 | Source: NewScientist news service

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.