Dyson spheres, the hypothetical mega-structures that advanced alien civilizations might use to enclose a star and harness its energy, suffer from a fatal flaw: They are catastrophically unstable. But ...

In the 1960s, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that advanced alien civilizations could be building enormous megastructures around a star to harness its energy. Such a move would allow a civilization ...

Do you ever question the nature of your reality? Are you real? Or are you a product of some complex computer simulation? What ...

Is it possible to build a Dyson sphere that isn't catastrophically unstable? New research says yes, but only in one type of star system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Scientists have proposed that advanced alien civilizations could build a Dyson sphere around a black hole instead of a star.

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