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Earth may house leftover remnants of an ancient planet deep in its core, far deeper than the "entrance to Hell" hole goes.

Two massive blobs found underneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean respectively were pointed to as particularly large anomalies, making up 6% of the world's volume.

Despite the major share in volume, the two blobs and their origins are unknown, leading some to believe it could be the leftover remains of an ancient planet which hit Earth over 4.5billion years ago.

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Figuring out exactly what the strange blobs are has proven difficult, with the largest hole in existence, the "entrance to Hell", still not cutting close to the crust.

It means scientists will need to dig even deeper than the 40,230ft they have already burrowed as they use a range of tech including seismic tomography monitoring to identify the blobs.

But those tomography results do not show the material these eerie blobs are made up of, just where they are.

Those two blobs are certainly cause for concern in scientific communities as they made it clear they were a different material to other items found at a similar level, Indy100 reported.

One hypothesis then is the two blobs are part of an ancient planet named Theia, which comes from the "giant impact hypothesis".

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Said hypothesis maintains the two blobs are actually bits of another planet which crashed into Earth so hard it formed the planet we have today, with leftover chunks sinking into the core.

Should the "giant impact" hypothesis ring true, it means the two blobs could be bits of Theia, which sank through the surface of earth on impact 4.5billion years ago.

Studies into the tectonic plate impact of such a collision are still underway, with scientists hoping to prove some key details with the theory.

Their studies come after finding the two blobs, also labelled large low shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs).

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