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Experts Met at MIT to Discuss The Possibility of Alien Tech Around Black Holes. Here's What Was Discussed.

(cokada/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Last June, while most of us were sweating it out and scrolling socials, more than two dozen ...

Alien civilizations could be using Dyson spheres to collect energy from black holes

Black holes can release enormous energy through hot disks, surrounding plasma and powerful jets, enough to support a civilization far beyond ours. Any giant collector would release unused energy as ...

SETI Scientists Think Alien Signals Could Be Hiding in Old Telescope Data

Researchers are zeroing in on more deliberate “narrow-band” alien signals, well outside the radio frequencies SETI has ...
New Scientist

This physicist is hunting for the biggest black hole in the universe

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously large black holes” might be used by alien civilisations, and what makes the ...
Phys.org

Scientists propose new method to detect alien civilizations via black holes

The paper suggests a civilization feeding matter into a black hole could harvest energy from it; more excitingly perhaps, the process could be detectable within 17,000 light years. The search for ...