Yeah, the Jenolen found out about it the hard way..............
There is only one logical answer to this question. Prepare a ship immediately for our Dear Leader to ride in. He will find the answer in short order.
My bet that it’s a binary star system with one of the stars being a captured black hole. That explains the data quite easily.
If they live there, are they still considered aliens?
Yeah, the Jenolen found out about it the hard way..............
This is a silly article.
They use Jupiter as some sort of argument against very large planets.
We have what, 9 in our solar system. Just nine. Jupiter is the largest here. That is not a statistically valid sample size at all.
The start has a very large planet orbiting it. Simple answer. Very, very big.
These folks know so little about the universe outside of our solar system - their speculation is kind of futile.
I’ve read they’ve ruled out natural causes that could interfere with the star’s output, but how did they manage that? For instance, what if the star were 30% or 40% iron from the get go (don’t ask me how)? That would surely wreck havoc on the nuclear fires at the core, perhaps causing wild fluctuations in the output. And that’s only one possibility, I imagine. How could they rule out all such possibilities when we admittedly know so little about the wonders that are out there? To invoke aliens at this point is nutso, imo.
The Pak Protectors are building something good.
The truth is it’s not even a star. It’s a lightbulb. When we look out at space, we’re really looking at a painted ceiling.
I say it is a fluorescent star, and it’s flickering at a very low rate.
By the way, fluorescent bulbs suck.
Would not a star in orbit near a black hole (or other high gravity object) periodic dim in light radiating towards us ?
as the star move relatively closer or farther to black hole from our perspective... more or less light radiation would be captured by the black hole
you do not have to move behind something have light block
gravity itself can grab and hold light radiation
During a recent observation of KIC 8462852, astronomers at Vanderbilt University were startled when it appeared the distant star had gone completely dark.....until they realized they had forgotten to remove the lens cap from their telescope.