Aliens may be harnessing energy from supermassive black holes using hypothetical superstructures called Dyson spheres.
This bold idea is attracting the attention of the scientific community, opening up new avenues for the search for extraterrestrial life and signs of technology that may exist in the universe.
Dyson sphere: A science fiction technology that could become the key to black hole mining.
If extraterrestrial civilizations far more advanced than humans do exist, they would likely require enormous amounts of energy to sustain themselves.
A new study published in the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific hypothesizes that these civilizations may turn to black holes to gather the energy they need.
Olivia Curtis, the lead author of the study at the Center for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Research (PSETI) at Pennsylvania State University, USA, acknowledges that this is a very bold hypothesis.