Here is a brief once over on what they detected and the name of the star:
NASA’s Kepler space telescope found that KIC 8462852 dimmed oddly and dramatically several times over the past few years. The dimming events were far too substantial to be caused by a planet crossing the star’s face, researchers say, and other possible explanations, such as an enormous dust cloud, don’t add up, either.
And this is the institution and particular telescope that they will use to focus attention on this star:
We are looking at it with the Allen Telescope Array,” said Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California.
Do you think they will find any further evidence of aliens? Feel free to comment with your ideas.
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Nobody has mentioned this so i will and i want first dibs on whatever associates me receiving money for claiming so…..a small black hole orbits the star….just putting it out there….
It would leave a signature distortion
This type of light effecting has a different pattern
b******e orbits the star lol
Just a thought 1500 light years away from earth ruffly what if we are looking at reminents of an alien species here I mean for all we know by looking through the scope that civilisation died out years ago and all that’s left is old tech floating in space but hay old tech from a dead race that had space travel is better then our new tech right?
Likely chunks of debri on odd orbits from planetary collision perhaps or a blast from a death star lol
Black holes don’t orbit.
If it was far enough away, I don’t see why it couldn’t. Black holes are nothing more than the collapsed remains of a dead star with a similar gravitational pull until the event horizon. Maybe it was a rogue that got caught in that solar system. It would certainly explain why the light dips so much further than if it was a planet. I wonder if there’s any gravitational lensing that we haven’t heard about yet.
I like your train of thought. But a gravitational anomaly would bend light not block it. So they would be able to determine weather it was a black hole or not.