AN expert is claiming that intelligent aliens could be hiding on Dyson spheres circling white dwarf stars throughout the Milky Way.
Ben Zuckerman, who teaches physics and astronomy at the University of California Los Angeles, is the co-author of a new study exploring these ideas and more.
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Zuckerman believes this is where the search for extraterrestrials should be focusing, according to Live Science.
Aliens have not yet been discovered elsewhere.
But the professor doesn’t believe that possible alien civilizations would go through the trouble of traveling to a new star if only to build a Dyson sphere.
He believes instead that the spheres would be built around a civilization’s home star – which will eventually become white dwarfs.
Dyson spheres are hypothetical constructions that entirely encompass a star. The spheres also capture a large percentage of their solar power output.
The spheres are named after Freeman Dyson, a famous physicist.
Zuckerman believes that by searching this way, astronomers may also be able to estimate the number of advanced civilizations there are in the galaxy.
