Aliens Didn't Send That Mysterious Object to Our Solar System After All
Astronomers have found no evidence of radio signals coming from the interstellar asteroid known as ‘Oumuamua.
In December, astronomers checked every inch of an interstellar object that had entered our solar system for evidence of artificial technology. They spent weeks pouring over the data, looking for radio signals that would suggest the object, known as ‘Oumuamua, may be something other than a just a strange space rock.
They didn’t find anything.
The Breakthrough Listen Initiative, a $100 million effort in the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, did not detect radio emissions from the object, according to a published on arXiv, a repository for papers approved for future publication in journals, on Tuesday. in October as the first known interstellar object to be spotted in our solar system.
