“The proposal through [Darryl] Seligman and [Gregory] Laughlin looked promising, as it may be just the incredibly elongated form of ‘Oumuamua’ as well as non-gravitational acceleration,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Thiem Hoang, principal investigator of the Theoretical Organization of Astrophysics at the Korean Institute of Astronomy and Space Sciences (KASI), said in a statement. “However, his theory is based on speculation that H2 ice can simply form in dense molecular clouds. If this is true, H2 ice elements can be abundant in the universe and would therefore have far-reaching implications. H2 ice has also been proposed to dark matter, a mystery of fashionable astrophysics.”
MYSTERIOUS INTERSTELLAR OBJECT ‘OUMUAMUA GETS A NEW ORIGIN STORY
Dr. Avi Loeb, co-author of the new study, said the researchers sought to verify the dark matter proposal as well as the theory hypothesis.
“We suspect that hydrogen icebergs may not be the adventure, which will probably take millions of years, because they evaporate too quickly, and if they can simply form in molecular clouds,” Loeb said in the statement.
Fox News contacted Laughlin with a request for comment on this story.
In November 2018, a study published through Loeb and others at Harvard’s Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics warned that “Oumuamua” may simply be “a soft candle of synthetic origin” sent from civilization.
However, the researcher who discovered ‘Oumuamua, the Canadian physicist and astronomer Robert Weryk, said the concept that he came here from some other civilization was only a “wild speculation.”
‘Oumuamua’, which means ‘observer’ or ‘explorer’ in Hawaiian, was first classified as an asteroid when it was detected in 2017 at 196,000 mph, but was recently discovered closer to a comet.
The position of its origin remains a mystery, some have warned that it would possibly have come from the giant molecular cloud (GMC) W51, 17,000 light-years from Earth. However, investigators said this probably wasn’t the case.
“The maximum position probably for making hydrogen icebergs is in the densest environments in the interstellar environment,” Loeb added. “These are giant molecular clouds.”
INTERSTELLAR VISITOR ‘OUMUAMUA’ SHOULD NEVER HAVE KEPT AT HOME, THEORIES SAY
“Thermal sublimation through collision heating in GMCs can simply destroy molecular hydrogen icebergs of the ‘Oumuamua’ length before they leak into the interstellar environment,” Loeb continued.
Whatever the origin of ‘Oumuamua, Loeb is convinced that other items like this will be discovered quickly.
‘If’ Oumuamua is a component of a population of similar elements on random trajectories, then the Observatory Vera C. Rubin (VRO), which is expected to have its first gentle next year, stumbles upon approximately one Object of type Oumuamua consistent with the month, “explained the researcher.” We’ll all look forward to see what he finds.”
A momentary interstellar object, comet 2I / Borisov, discovered in August 2019.
More observable through the telescope since January 2018, many have speculated about ‘Ouamumua. In addition to the soft sail theory, some have speculated that it is a comet or an asteroid.
The mystery of its precise nature deepened in 2018, when NASA said it had been in Ouamumua’s direction for two months but had not originally noticed it.
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