3I/ATLAS has a strange ‘heartbeat’-like pulse that could point to alien technology: Harvard scientist

Is 3I/ATLAS following its heart?

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb believes that 3I/ATLAS boasts a “heartbeat”-like pulse that could provide evidence of its artificial origins — potentially even pointing to the inner workings of a spaceship.

“The pulses could be periodic thrusts for orbit corrections or some other internal cycle within the spacecraft,” the astrophysicist told the Post.

In a recent blog on Medium, titled “Are the Jets from 3I/ATLAS pulsed like a heartbeat?” Loeb wrote that following its July discovery, our interstellar visitor’s light blinks in a regular cycle that repeats every 16.16 hours like an interstellar lighthouse. The so-called cosmic cadence was observed in a study published over the summer in the journal Astronomy and Physics.

Loeb wrote that this celestial drumbeat should have been apparent in a series of “well-calibrated” photos of ATLAS over several days, but none were “systematically studied in the published literature.”

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