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Artist's impression of the Green Bank Telescope collecting data on the center of the Milky Way. The circled image shows the black hole at the center of our galaxy, and a potential pulsar (unverified) nearby. Credit: Danielle Futselaar / Breakthrough Listen

Something is ticking near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole

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A sensitive radio survey by Breakthrough Listen has identified a candidate millisecond pulsar near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. If confirmed, the finding could enable unprecedented tests of general relativity.
Filtering human noise from signals coming from other worlds. Photo: Green Bank Observatory

Filtering radio pollution from Earth in search of extraterrestrial signals

Researchers used machine learning to distinguish between signals from space and signals originating from human activity
pulsar. Courtesy of Breakthrough Listen

Breakthrough Listen project scanned entire galaxies for signals from advanced intelligent beings

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The team identified 1,519 candidate signals that could not be attributed to radio frequency interference. After algorithmic processing, matching signal properties with known interference, and extensive visual inspection, no convincing evidence of signatures was found
Credit: Breakthrough Listen / Danielle Futselaar

SETI searches for technology signatures: The hunt for extraterrestrial signals at the heart of the Milky Way begins

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Akshay Suresh, a graduate student at Cornell University, is leading an unusual scientific activity - a groundbreaking mission called BLIPSS to detect periodic signals emanating from the center of the Milky Way
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