Updates On Potential Contact With Aliens to How Did Black Holes Get So Massive, So Early?

Today’s news includes astrophysicist Adam Frank on The Promise of Quantum Computing and Harvard's Intrepid Avi Loeb suggests aliens may be creating universes in their labs, and more…

Is quantum computing hype or almost here?--Nature may not allow us full access to the weirdness of quantum mechanics, argues astrophysicist Adam Frank for Big Think. "Personally, I want to see that promise fulfilled. There really are remarkable possibilities hiding in those quantum superposed qubits. But it also may be the case that nature simply will not allow us access to them in the way we need anytime soon," says Frank.

Aliens on low-oxygen worlds may never discover fire--Low levels of oxygen on planets where alien life could potentially evolve may make developing technology impossible there because there would be no combustion, reports Alex Wilkins for New Scientist.

How did supermassive black holes get so big so fast just after the Big Bang? Explores Robert Lea for Space.com. "It's like seeing a family walking down the street, and they have two six-foot teenagers, but they also have with them a six-foot-tall toddler."

Harvard's Intrepid Avi Loeb says aliens may be creating universes in their labs, reports Futurism. "You can imagine that the superhuman civilization that understands how to unify quantum mechanics and gravity might actually be able to create a baby universe in the laboratory," he told the news outlet, "a quality that we assign to God in religious texts."

Giant star rocked by waves three times larger than our sun--A binary star system shines 20 per cent more brightly whenever the smaller star gets close to its giant partner, because of the immense waves that break on the larger star, reports Chen Ly for New Scientist.

Four Essential Reads On Potential Contact With Aliens--UFOs usually have non-extraterrestrial origins, but many have urged the government to be more transparent about UFO data, reports Discover.com. 

Storms on Saturn are so huge that their traces last hundreds of years--Every couple of decades Saturn develops a huge storm, and now researchers have found that the atmosphere keeps chemical records of those storms for hundreds of years, reports Leah Crane for New Scientist.

Could a gravitational wave rip apart an entire planet?--When we detect gravitational waves, it’s because they are warping space and time by a tiny amount – but this episode of Dead Planets Society is about making one that is far more powerful, reports Leah Crane and Chelsea Whyte for New Scientist.

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