At the edge of our Solar System, a mysterious giant planet could be hiding, with a mass five times that of the Earth. Several teams of astronomers, including the Americans Chad Trujillo and Scott Sheppard, are hunting for this hypothetical celestial object. What are the clues? And why is it so difficult to detect?

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