Harvard Physicists Suggested That Mystery Fast Radio Bursts Are Indicator Of Alien Existence

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Fast Radio Bursts are potentially the most mysterious things in the Universe. They're one among the greatly transitory and fiery signals ever discovered in space.

According to Science Alert, Fast Radio Bursts are highly powerful. They last for only milliseconds, but they produce energy as much as 500 million Suns. In 2016, researchers discovered 16 FRBs that all came from a similar origin as the great far away Milky Way. Now, Harvard's physicists proposed that these signals could be a proof of alien existence.

Fast Radio Bursts are extremely glaring even though they live a radically short period and at an excessive distance. "We haven't identified a possible natural source with any confidence. "An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking," Abraham "Avi" Loeb, a theoretical physicist from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics said.

Earlier in 2017, the scientists detected six more Fast Radio Bursts from the same spot as the2016 discovery. They identified FRB's exact location, which is on the midget galaxy that is over three billion light-years from the Earth.

That was considered as an enormous development of discovery. This is because from that time, the Fast Radio Bursts detected by the scientists all came from different origins in space. As a result, follow-up observations are hopeless.

The scientists discovered the first ever reiterating Fast Radio Bursts, known as FRB 121102. But until now, no one can present a credible explanation as to what is causing its robust explosions. FRBs were seen from the brink of the universe, and their intense luminosity indicates they are the brightest space's element, Southgate Amateur Radio Club reported.

"[W]e have posited that Fast Radio Bursts are beams set up by extragalactic civilizations to potentially power lightsails," Loeb and his colleagues stated in a new paper. Meanwhile, the team can only suggest that since there’s no explanation of the FRBs' powerful light, everyone should be considering natural sources.