Matías Suazo is looking for aliens in the Milky Way.
But the Ph.D. student at Uppsala University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy is not just searching for any alien life. He’s trying to find an alien civilization so advanced that they are able to harness the power of a star through a megastructure known as a Dyson sphere.
“That's the thing that my first project tried to answer, how likely is to find a Dyson sphere in the galaxy,” Suazo tells Inverse. “That’s complicated, but not impossible.”
In a paper presented at the annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society held in July, Suazo explored the potential for Dyson spheres across the Milky Way galaxy.
From his research, Suazo saw at least five stars that could potentially house a Dyson sphere.
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