Scanned this yesterday, JC. I always hope for the SETI result, and it always disappoints. Even if it was ETI working on a black hole project for their own (its own?) benefit, always there is the simpler explanation that covers the evidence. The Milky Way could be dead and empty (The boonies) or there's life but no tool building life. In either case it may simply be that the early galaxy produced lots of debris, like lots of neutron stars falling into the alleged AGN, active galactic nucleus to perform just as you have described.
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> To: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wed, Oct 13, 2021 7:37 am Subject: An odd signal from the Galactic center In Yesterday's issue of The Astrophysical Journal Astronomers at Australia's Square Kilometer Array radio telescope reported they have found an odd signal coming from the center of the Milky Way. The signal is very highly circularly polarized, which is pretty unusual for an astronomical object, and it does not produce any detectable visible, infrared, or x-ray emissions, only radio. And it varies in intensity randomly by a factor of 100 over time scales as short as one day, so whatever it is it must be a small compact object. Astronomers don't know what the source could be but they do know what it isn't, they have ruled out Pulsars, flare stars, and GammaRay bursts. To my knowledge nobody has even offered up a hypothesis about what the source could be. Here is a free preprint of the article: Discovery of ASKAP J173608.2−321635 as a Highly-Polarized Transient Point Source with the Australian SKA Pathfinder John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2riO1u6E%3Dtx9%2B982dDAq9MCHz_EuxxOU1Xz6Bw8NbQ9g%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/296256386.1275859.1634140104846%40mail.yahoo.com.
