Aliens in the center of the Milky Way galaxy can send signals to Earth: scientists began a study

Scientists intend to study radio pulses coming from the center of our galaxy, suggesting that they may be signals from an advanced civilization. We are talking about narrow-frequency pulses, usually emitted by pulsars, but similar pulses are also used by people in radars.

The new study, led by Cornell University PhD student Akshay Suresh, is described in an article in The Astronomical Journal. To study the signals, scientists have already developed their own software.

Scientists suggest that such radio pulses can be a very effective means of communication even over very long distances, since they stand out clearly against the background of the radio noise of space. Therefore, Suresh believes, these radio pulses are an attractive object to listen to when searching for alien civilizations.

The researchers have developed special software capable of detecting repetitive pulses and have already tested it on known pulsars. Tests have shown that the design works well even though the frequency bands on which the signals are broadcast are very small, only a tenth of the bandwidth used by conventional FM radios.

Further, in their experiments, the scientists combined the new method with data from the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia (USA).

As co-author of the study Vishal Ghajar from the SETI Institute, which is engaged in the search for alien life, explained, earlier the scientists’ efforts were focused on finding continuous signals, but now it is becoming clear that signals like the radio pulses of pulsars can be more effective as a means of interstellar communication. huge distances.

The scientists focused their research on listening to the center of the Milky Way, since it is believed to be saturated with stars around which potentially habitable exoplanets can exist.

In addition, the center of the galaxy is the optimal place, the signals of which can be simultaneously sent to all ends of the Milky Way, covering as wide a range of planets as possible.

Scientists are also convinced that aliens will use narrow-frequency bands for their signal, and the signal will consist of repeating patterns, because if we hear something like this, we will know for sure that this is not a natural phenomenon.

The method developed by scientists makes it possible to analyze 1.5 million samples of these telescopes in just 30 minutes. The first large-scale study conducted by scientists, unfortunately, did not reveal signs of alien life. But there is still a lot of work ahead of them, which may eventually end in sensational success.

Earlier, GLOBAL HAPPENINGS also said that one of the studies showed that there are hundreds of millions of worlds in the Milky Way where life could exist.