Proxima Centauri (yellow arrow) resembles the Sun, and two planets (light dots in the picture) revolve around it.
The answer to the question of whether extraterrestrials exist is still uncertain. However, a team specializing in the study of extraterrestrial life has earlier listened to a set of mysterious signals at Proxima Centauri, 4.2 light-years away from Earth.
After analysis, the team found that the pattern of the signals is very similar to human radio communication, and with all the possibilities, it raises hope for the existence of intelligent life on the planet.
A group of radio waves suspected of being alien communication, named BCL-1, was captured by the Pace Observatory in Australia as early as April-May 2019, but until recently, the Breakthrough Listen team studying the signal found that it has a very narrow RF range and a regular drift of the source, which proves that the radio source comes from A distant cosmic object, such as a planet orbiting a star. Proxima Centauri is a star with at least two planets orbiting it, and one of them is more likely to have an Earth-like environment, thus suggesting the possibility of intelligent life.
Although conventional scholars insist that BCL-1 is most likely just a natural product, Sofia Sheikh, a graduate student at Pennsylvania State University who led the signal analysis, said, “Because it (the signal) is so strange, we have to think about the next step.” The team is preparing two papers describing the signal and subsequent analyses.
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