Aliens may be trying to contact Earth by sending mysterious bursts of radio waves to our planet, according to a new study.

The waves, known as ‘fast radio bursts,’ have been detected from an object called FRB 121102 since August, and now a new study has found that the object is nearly 100 per cent polarised.

This polarisation suggests that the source of the bursts lies within a strong magnetic field, such as around a massive black hole - and could belong to aliens.

The findings were made by the Breakthrough Listen team at the University of California, Berkley, as well as another team of astronomers from the Netherlands.

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