‘Fast radio bursts’ from space may be powering alien ships – Harvard study
Researchers at Harvard University have theorized that a baffling, unexplained phenomenon called ‘fast radio bursts’ may be used to power gigantic alien interstellar spaceships twice the size of earth.
Fast radio bursts are millisecond-long flashes of radio waves, recorded using enormous radio telescopes. Since their discovery in 2007, fewer than 20 have been detected. The bursts last only the briefest of moments, but they can generate as much energy as 500 million suns.
There is no generally accepted explanation for the mysterious astrophysical phenomena. One theory is that they are caused by the collision of very dense objects such as merging black holes or neutron stars.
However, a new study from scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics proposes that the bursts might be coming from giant planet-sized transmitters in galaxies billions of light-years away.
"Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven't identified a possible natural source with any confidence," one of the researchers Avi Loeb explained. “An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking.”
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