Why We Should Look For Alien Megastructures Around Pulsars
Some day in the far future, it’s possible our descendants will kick it up a notch and wrap the…
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It’s easy to understand why physicists get so excited about pulsars, but astrobiologists and SETI scientists may find them valuable as well. Research published last year proposed that advanced aliens are more likely to build energy-collecting megastructures around pulsars than regular stars. The reason is that pulsars concentrate their energy in discrete beams, as opposed to scattering them in all directions, as most stars are wont to do.
Anyhoo, Brambilla are her colleagues are hoping to conduct further simulations of pulsars in order to gain a deeper understanding of their intense magnetospheres, and how pulsars might differ from one another.
[Astrophysical Journal]
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