Alien radio signals (FRBs) detected in 8 new sources by Astronomers, while Black Hole in middle of Milky Way starts blinking

New research suggests that gargantuan supernova explosion blasts may be so powerful, they literally kick black holes around the galaxy.

Throughout the galaxy and indeed the wider universe, there are likely millions of black holes bouncing around at fantastically high speeds.

As the black hole consumes its stellar sibling, the matter being swallowed up emits powerful X-rays and radio waves, allowing Earth-bound scientists a chance to home in on them.

Neutron stars experience what is known as a Blaauw kick or a natal kick, which sends them flying across the stars, so researchers wanted to determine whether the same could be true for black holes. They found that 75 percent of the black holes studied did indeed receive a swift kick up the backside the moment they were born. With approximately 10 million black holes estimated to be in the Milky Way, that means there are potentially 7.5 million black holes ricocheting around us.

The closest black hole, we think it’s two kiloparsecs away [6,523 light-years].

Kevin Hadsell wrote:

When thinking about the possibility of life in the universe, it is also important to remember that we have to be open to the idea that this life has no direct connection to life as we know it. We are imagining alien life with our own planet as a frame of reference. We think of living things like they live on Earth. We think of communicating like we communicate on Earth. We think of evolution as it pertains to our own evolution. We have to consider that there may be nothing similar to what we know and consider the possibility that the life in the universe may be so different than ours that we cannot comprehend it.

Bingo. For all we know, these weird fish we sometimes find at the bottom of the oceans ARE aliens.

Or maybe some form of alien life has always been here, but we just can't see them - speed, size, dimension, etc.

The possibilities are limitless. Like I’ve said many times before, sit down and watch an episode or two of ancient aliens on history channel. Even without a significant buzz you will start questioning everything!

Kevin Hadsell wrote:

Not only that, you will be trying to track down old man river in your town that has one of the only HAM radios or CBs so we can somehow survive.

How do you think they would help you to survive? You'd be wasting your time.

Bad Wigins wrote:

the fact there's so many planets out there, and there's been so much time already, pretty much shows advanced aliens don't exist.

What if they do, but they're allergic to trees and glaciers.

They might even be frozen in the glaciers. All of this points to am imminent invasion of space aliens.

Not to go down some random wormhole on this, but, it would be potentially the only way to communicate with other people. Old man river, himself, is not the important part of that equation. You would be looking for an old man that still has either a CB radio or a HAM radio.

Black Hole So Big It 'Should Not Exist'

So much for "scientists" making predictions using their theories and such...

Bad Wigins wrote:

Advanced aliens need radio signals like we need smoke signals. If they haven't got faster-than-light communication figured out, they're the worst advanced aliens ever.

You are viewing this as a primitive earthling . This repeating signal has nothing to do with communication ,it may just be “industrial alien “ noise.

Scientists are testing a surprising theory that all comets in our solar system come from a single point in space time, right when planets were still forming around our newly-born sun.

The scientists used chemical models in a small scale survey of some 14 well-known comets to see if their composition could point to a particular point of origin. They found it did.

“We did some statistics to pin down if there was a special time or place in our young Solar System, where our chemical models meet the data on comets,” astronomer Christian Eistrup said.

“There was a single model that fitted each comet best, thereby indicating that they share their origin.”

The 14 different comets originated from the same time and place: a flat protoplanetary disk of gas and dust orbiting our newly-born sun in an area around the star.

Comet impacts are one of the leading theoretical explanations behind organic matter, and thus life, arriving on Earth.

“We still don't know how life on Earth began. But the chemistry on comets could lead to the production of organic molecules, including some building blocks for life. And if the right comet hits the right planet, with the right environment, life could start growing,” Eistrup concluded.

This is wrong in every possible way it can be wrong.

Not Consulted wrote:

Black Hole So Big It 'Should Not Exist'

So much for "scientists" making predictions using their theories and such...

Scientists are racist for calling something that swallows matter as black. They even call the opposite 'white holes'.

Why not call the holes that eat stars 'white hole's and the holes that create stars 'black holes'?

And how do we know scientists even understand black holes anyway? So they look in their telescopes and see stars disappearing down a hole in the universe. But all they see is light disappearing. How do they know it's not just aliens turning their lights off? When I look through my telescope and see the woman across the road switching her bedroom light off at night, I don't think - 'there's a black hole in that woman's bedroom because the light has disappeared'. I infer from her actions and that fact that she has undressed that she has switched her light off in order to go to bed. We haven't got telescopes powerful enough to see aliens actually switching their lights off, but we might eventually.

Mork. wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

Advanced aliens need radio signals like we need smoke signals. If they haven't got faster-than-light communication figured out, they're the worst advanced aliens ever.

You are viewing this as a primitive earthling . This repeating signal has nothing to do with communication ,it may just be “industrial alien “ noise.

I stand corrected. If they aren't even advanced enough for industry to be obsolete, then they're much worse than aliens who merely lack FTL travel.

Advanced aliens should have the power of telekinesis at a bare minimum. No machines required to move stuff.

Black holes could hide cores of pure dark energy which are quite literally pushing apart our universe at its very seams, according to an exciting new cosmological theory. University of Hawaii astrophysicist Kevin Croker and mathematician Joel Weiner examined some long-standing and far-reaching scientific theories about the universe on which a lot of modern day astrophysics is based. In doing so, they stumbled upon an idea which might force a rethink of our interpretations of fundamental physics. “It is now clear that general relativity can observably connect collapsed stars – regions the size of Honolulu – to the behavior of the universe as a whole, over a thousand billion billion times larger,” said Croker.

Friedmann's equations were based on the assumption that matter in space, of whatever kind, is of roughly the same type and is spread out fairly evenly, essentially not seeing the cosmic wood for the intergalactic trees, as under his model, smaller objects might be disregarded as not having a big enough (if any) effect on the wider universe.

But Croker and Weiner wanted to see what would happen to space, and the objects within, if they made some changes to the fundamental parameters of Friendmann’s equations. It turns out the change is quite drastic indeed.

Using their updated model, the averaged contributions of all objects might have a profound effect on the universe around them, and may also cause them to lose or gain energy depending on what type of object they are.

In 1966, Erast Gliner, proposed a model in which spaces close to the Big Bang event may have produced immense anti-gravitational effects; spaces which appeared like black holes from the outside, but were actually vast bubbles of energy ‘flexing’ against the rest of the universe. He dubbed these spaces Generic Objects of Dark Energy (GEODEs).

What we have shown is that if GEODEs do exist, then they can easily give rise to observed phenomena that presently lack convincing explanations,” the researchers said.

“We anticipate numerous other observational consequences of a GEODE scenario, including many ways to exclude it. We’ve barely begun to scratch the surface.”

More completely unexpected now overturned by scientists. Maybe we need psychics instead to predict the models?

Astronomers have detected a neutron star which beggars belief, being so big it challenges our understanding of extreme objects in the universe.

The pulsar, with the catchy name J0740+6620, is the first neutron star humans have detected measuring over two solar masses.

Using the timing of its pulses, astronomers have calculated its mass to be roughly 2.14 times that of our sun, packed into an area just 30km across (the Sun is 1.391 million km across, so it's a tight squeeze).

The object is close to the theoretical upper limit of 2.3 solar masses for a rotating neutron star, based on cutting-edge gravitational wave astronomy calculations from just last year.

J0740+6620 is located some 4,500 light-years away and is what is known as a millisecond pulsar, meaning it is rotating insanely fast, showering the Earth with bright radio waves shooting out from its magnetic poles on every pass.

"These city-sized objects are essentially ginormous atomic nuclei. They are so massive that their interiors take on weird properties. Finding the maximum mass that physics and nature will allow can teach us a great deal about this otherwise inaccessible realm in astrophysics,"

The issue with communicating with advanced aliens is that it demands the assumption that either we or them are many orders of magnitudes more advanced than we are currently. There's always this assumption that a civilization that's 10,000+ (to infinity) years older than us is capable of either transporting or communicating in ways that our physics hasn't fathomed yet.

It's not implausible that this simply isn't the case. That despite an alien civilization being ancient and far more advanced than us, they are still trapped to their home system, and are stuck with either similar imaging capabilities as us, similar communication abilities as us, or both. If this is the case, then it wouldn't matter how much time has passed or how long either of our civilizations have been around for, we simply wouldn't be able to communicate.

And the only way we could possibly find eachother would be by discovering the planet manually the way we do now ("manually" meaning with machine learning analysis of traditional observation or whatever), and determining that life is probable via analysis of the planet's composition. And unless the planet is in one of the absolutely closest systems to us, there'd be no way to determine the extent of their civilization or perform any communication with them, even over vast periods of time. There would need to be something crazy like a dyson sphere, moon/planet-sized satellite, or insane cloud of satellites/space debris. But that goes back to the issue of theoretical technological advancement.

It's the rescue beacon on the Event Horizon.

The star that spawned major hype about possible ‘alien megastructures’ in recent years may, in fact, have company. A new study has found 21 stars with similar dipping properties which may unravel the mystery of ‘Tabby’s star.’

Using NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomer Tabetha “Tabby” Boyajian discovered instances of star KIC 8462852, slightly larger and hotter than Earth’s sun, and located roughly 1,480 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, dimming by up to 22 percent.

The lack of satisfactory explanations as to why the star was dimming pushed astrophysicist and researcher Edward Schmidt to look for more examples of similar ‘dipping’ stars whose behavior could also be analyzed to more quickly and accurately determine the cause.

The fluctuations were erratic and yet too substantial to be explained away by planets or dust crossing in front of the star, fueling speculation that the phenomenon may have been caused by the remnants of a so-called Dyson Sphere, a megastructure built to harness the power of a star for use by a highly advanced civilization.

By searching through a vast database of about 14 million objects contained in the Northern Sky Variable Survey (NSVS) from April 1999 to March 2000, Schmidt found at least 21 stars, including 15 ‘slow dippers’ like Boyajian’s star and six ‘rapid dippers’ that were even more extreme examples of the phenomenon.

Schmidt was careful to note that the Northern Sky Variable Survey did not contain Boyajian’s star, so he may only have scratched the surface of potential ‘dippers’ that could help unlock the mystery of this cosmic phenomenon.

“We’re obviously missing some of these stars because of the catalogs we have,” Schmidt said. “By looking at more catalogs, we may get a better picture of what’s going on, even though it won’t be a complete picture.”

Coevett wrote:

I agree with the first part.

Coevett, what sort of drugs so you think they would be on?