Vyacheslav I. Dokuchaev asks “Is there life inside black holes?” in a recent research paper, speculating that “advanced civilizations may inhabit the interiors of supermassive black holes, being invisible from the outside and basking in the light of the central singularity and orbital photons.” This thought experiment reminds us of the hypothesis that we could be living inside a black hole, and what better place to hide from prying eyes and unwanted attention?
Image: “A Race Round a Black Hole”, via NASA.
Has ET evolved to be discreet? An evolutionary tendency for inconspicuous aliens would solve a nagging paradox – and also suggest that we Earthlings should think twice before advertising our own existence.
As physicist Enrico Fermi argued in 1950, unless the evolution of life is unique to Earth, there must be many intelligent species out there. So why have they neither phoned home nor been detected by us? —NewScientist.com
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