Light can travel faster than light.

The universe can expand. Faster than light. Without violating any laws of nature. This is possible. Because light travels faster outside the universe. There is no scattering effect. And that makes photons travel faster than they travel in the universe. But then we can say that all photons travel at the same speed. 

So, can light travel faster outside the universe? The fact is that they travel along a straight line. This means that a photon travels a shorter distance outside the universe. The straight-moving photon travels directly from point A to point B. 

In the universe. The scattering effect makes photons follow a curved trajectory. This means that the photon follows a curved path to the goal. The photon travels a longer path than it would travel outside the universe. 

A black hole can pull things inside it. Faster than light. Because it binds fields into it. 

The reason for “crossing the speed of light” is that. A photon travels into a black hole. By following a straight path. Because photons travel straight inside the black hole without reflection. We. Cannot see that thing. But when particles follow a circular trajectory when they fall into the black hole. Those particles emit so-called Bremsstrahlung radiation. That radiation forms. When a particle changes its trajectory, it sends a photon. 

Magnetic bremsstrahlung is called synchrotron radiation. This means that gravitational waves. Their source. It can be similar to bremsstrahlung and synchrotron radiation. This means that the fast-spinning event horizon. Or some particle. That orbits the singularity sends gravitational waves. The structure that sends gravitational waves. It is somewhere in matter. Sometimes people thought. That could be bonds between elementary particles. Or maybe it's in the gluons or W/Z bosons. That could exist longer in that high-energy environment. 

But gravitational waves are only evidence. That there could be a particle called the graviton. In that case, those gravitons they can be things that orbit the singularity. There is a possibility. That. The ultra-high-energy environment near black holes could transform atoms into miniature black holes. Energy level in the material disk. It rises all the time. When. The object closes in on a black hole. 

That massive energy presses it into a smaller and smaller size. And because energy has no place there, it can escape. That thing can press electrons and quarks into homogeneous entirety. That entirety is called a singularity. So could a graviton be the miniature black hole? This explains why researchers cannot see that particle. 

Then we can think about dark energy. Dark energy is energy. That seems to have no source. There is a possibility that. Dark energy is wave movement. That has an extremely long wavelength. That explains why dark energy affects only the largest structures in the universe. So could something stretch the wavelength so long? So that its wavelength is longer than the diameter of the galaxy clusters. This effect can form when a photon travels through the extremely large cosmic void. 

Could so-called antigravity be some recoil effect in gravitational waves? 

Because wave movement and all particles have recoil. That means, in antigravity, it could be recoil in hypothetical graviton particles. Or it could be the recoil that gravitational waves send. 

But even if the graviton does not exist. The gravitational waves should have a recoil effect. So in that model, gravity is like Doppler cooling. The object loses its energy. And outside energy tries to fill that energy space. This means that gravitation is radiation that takes energy out from a particle or object. 

There is a model that dark energy is so-called antigravity. The antigravity could be a recoil phenomenon. This means that if the graviton is a particle that sends a gravitational wave. That means that gravitation is the interaction between gravitons. That means when a graviton travels between objects. That forms the recoil effect. This means that gravitons should form a similar recoil effect. 

As other particles. When a graviton travels in one direction. This. Effect makes the graviton split. In. That model. The graviton. It has.

Similar properties to the photon.  And one of that hypothetical particle’s properties is that it could split. The graviton pushes another graviton in the opposite direction. This means that a tunnel could form between those particles. And when that gravitational tunnel collapses. 

That forms a situation where this energy falls into that tunnel and pushes those objects away. This means that if graviton is the particle. That particle should have a similar recoil effect. As. Other particles. So if graviton is real, it should have recoil. That recoil could be the thing. That we call “antigravity”. But that requires the graviton to be a real particle.

https://scitechdaily.com/the-universe-can-expand-faster-than-light-without-breaking-physics/

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/yes-the-universe-can-expand-faster-than-light

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremsstrahlung

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_cooling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchrotron_radiation

The phase singularity. It’s like a miniature WARP bubble that can travel faster than light.

The phase singularity is the bubble of emptiness. It can travel between quantum field strings. So that means that. The phase singularity can reach its goal sooner than a photon. The phase singularity doesn’t break laws of physics. It just travels a more direct route than a photon. The phase singularity is like a quasiparticle. The phase singularity. It travels a shorter route. Than a photon that makes curves, and that makes it possible for that phase singularity. 

It can reach the goal before a photon. Not because it’s faster than light.  But because it travels in a straight line. 

The bubble of nothing in the quantum beam. This means that we can describe the phase singularity as a quantum-sized WARP bubble. 

Can we sometimes form a wormhole? Theoretically, we can make a quantum version of that phenomenon. A theoretical wormhole. It is like the stretched WARP bubble. The theoretical WARP bubble is the bubble of emptiness. 

Theoretically, a WARP bubble is similar to that thing. That researchers call a phase singularity. Theoretically, a phase singularity can form because a photon starts to spin. This photon takes the quantum field with it. That could form the bubble. If that spin continues, the bubble starts to stretch. This wormhole cannot transport complex structures. But that could transport a single photon through it. 

Then the photon starts to create the quantum tornado. This phenomenon. It can form an environment where the spinning structure. It locks most of the energy out from that structure. 

Darkness can travel faster than light. Or maybe we should say that phase singularities. Or an optical vortex in a light beam. It can travel faster than light. The light beam can make a quantum roll around the microvoids. And the optical vortex is one kind of microvoid. The miniature void is a lower-energy space. The quantum fields form energy flows that are like wind. We can think of a light beam as paper that the quantum wind curves. And if that wind is strong enough. That turns the light into a roll. This thing forms the quantum maser effect in that tunnel. 

There is a structure that starts to stretch that quantum tube. The spinning light tube starts to take quantum fields with it. And that thing extends the quantum tornado. That quantum tornado forms the structure. 

Called: phase singularity. This thing means that. In those light beams is an environment. There, light can travel faster than it travels outside it. 

The phase singularity is like a bubble that forms between light beams. That phase can be described as the empty bubble. And that means we could compare the WARP bubble with a phase singularity. This means that we could make the phase singularity. And put a photon inside it. This means that a phase singularity could transport a photon and protect information inside it. This doesn’t mean that the phase singularity could transport more than one photon. But. It could protect information in a photon. That travels in it. 

A phase singularity can transport a photon or frozen light beam very fast. If. We want to compare that quantum WARP with sci-fi WARP. This thing. It can carry one single particle. 

In a phase singularity. The phase of the light. It is not determined. The amplitude or strength. In this structure, it is zero. This means that when we say that the darkness travels faster. Than. The speed of light. We mean that the amplitude is zero. It can travel faster than light. 

When we think about the shape of the light. And especially the photon. The light particle, the photon, looks like a donut. This means that those light particles. They can travel faster than light. Without breaking. The laws of physics. And if the photon spins fast in the phase singularity. That makes it possible to transport a photon into the past. 

There is one thing. That can travel faster than a photon. That is another photon. That travels in the environment. There, a photon can travel faster than a photon in another environment. 

If. The photon travels lying down. The photon can spin. And that thing can cause a situation. There is one side of the photon. It travels faster than the other side. 

When we think. The speed of light. Or which photon is faster. We must realize one thing. All photons have the same speed. We talk about the speed of photons. And the speed of light. We must determine the question using the term. Which photon reaches the goal first? The answer is simple. The photon that follows a less curved trajectory. So the photon that travels along a straight line reaches the goal faster. Or. sooner than the photon that makes more curves. 

The situation is like two cars driving side by side. Both cars travel 100 km/h. The first car travels in a straight line. The second car makes curves. The second car reaches the goal later. Because. It traveled a longer distance. Each curve that the car makes extends the journey. So the reason the photon that travels straight reaches the goal before. Is that the straight-moving photon travels a shorter distance. Than. The photon that makes curves. 

https://physicsworld.com/a/darkness-can-travel-faster-than-light/

https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-found-something-that-can-move-faster-than-light-the-darkness-inside-it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

New exoplanet found near Beta Pictoris.

"Beta Pictoris is located about 60 light-years away toward the constellation of Pictor (the Painter’s Easel) and is one of the best-known examples of a star surrounded by a dusty debris disc. This image, based on data from the Digitized Sky Survey 2, shows a region of approximately 1.7 x 2.3 degrees around Beta Pictoris. Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2" (Wikipedia, Giant Alien World Found Hiding in Plain Sight for 11 Years)

Beta Pictoris is the second-brightest star in the constellation Pictor, 63 ly from Earth. This young A-spectral-class star has three known exoplanets. Beta Pictoris b and c are large worlds. Both of those worlds have masses about 10 times Jupiter's. The exact masses of those gas giants are seen in the table. 

Beta Pictoris d is farther. Its mass is about 2,5 times Jupiter's. This means this solar system seems to be upside down. Heavier planets are closer to Beta Pictoris. c is the closest. But the second one, Beta Pictoris b, is in the middle. And the last and lightest, Beta Pictoris d, is farthest. 

Those exoplanets' orbital periods are: Beta Pictoris c: about 3,29 years. Beta Pictoris b: about 23,77 years. And Beta Pictoris d: about 91 or more years.

"These images trace Beta Pictoris d over more than a decade, from its discovery with ESO’s VLT to earlier detections in archival VLT and JWST data. The arrow marks the faint planet, while the brighter Beta Pictoris b appears in the upper images; the diagonal band is the system’s edge-on debris disc. Credit: ESO/B. Sutlieff, M. Bonse et al." (Wikipedia, Giant Alien World Found Hiding in Plain Sight for 11 Years)

That means that those three massive planets are forming in a planetary system. There is lots of matter. Those large and heavy exoplanets may have very large moons. There is a material ring around Beta Pictoris. That means. Those three planets. They might not only.

Larger objects orbiting that star. The moon is an object that orbits a planet. This means those giant exoplanets. They can have large Earth-size moons. Or. Even larger orbiters. This means that those super exoplanets. They can have other gas giants orbiting them. And anyway, Beta Pictoris d is the faintest exoplanet ever found. 

By using an Earth-based telescope. Beta Pictoris is too young and too hot to host habitable worlds.  

“A series of images shows observations of the exoplanet Beta Pictoris d over more than a decade. (Image credit: ESO/B. Sutlieff, M. Bonse et al.”(Space.com)

“The motion of Beta Pictoris b. The orbital plane is viewed side-on; the planet is not moving towards the star.” (Wikipedia, Beta Pictoris b)

A-type star loses lots of mass. When. It turns mature.  The strong hydrogen line means that the star is young. But it also shows where that star was formed. 

It is a very hydrogen-rich nebula. Another interesting detail in the Beta Pictoris system is the large molecular ring around it. This dust disk is asymmetric. 

Those large planets in the Beta Pictoris system. Suggest this star. Could have traveled in some interstellar nebula. Then that star is pulled into that nebula around it. The gas giant. Doesn’t necessarily mean something light. Material. Or elements that formed the planet determine its weight. The planet can be larger than Earth. But it can have weaker gravity if it is formed of very light elements. This means that an exoplanet could be very different than any planet in our solar system. Those exoplanets are so different. 

That makes it impossible. To create. Some common models for planetary systems and their habitability. There are about 1,5-2 Earth-sized and Earth-mass planets in habitable zones. But most of those planets. They have no atmosphere. 

Things. like megaflares or some cosmic events. They can strip that atmosphere away in seconds. Or maybe some rocky worlds. They have no such core. That. It could form the magnetic field. Without a magnetic field, plasma eruptions strip the atmosphere into space. And in the case of large stars. Those plasma eruptions. They can travel to very long distances. A normal solar wind. It can blow the atmosphere off large planets. 

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-discovers-hidden-planet-in-famous-star-system/

https://scitechdaily.com/giant-alien-world-found-hiding-in-plain-sight-for-11-years/

https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/found-you-astronomers-spot-faintest-exoplanet-ever-seen-from-earth-after-a-decade-of-hide-and-seek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Pictoris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Pictoris_b

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Pictoris_c

Can dark matter have some hidden force?

“Dark matter may experience an unseen attractive force, but stronger attraction does not necessarily make the Universe more clumped. Credit: SciTechDaily.com.” (SciTechDaily, Dark Matter’s Secret Force Could Reshape Our Understanding of the Universe)

Dark matter is one of the suggested sources of dark energy. This means that if WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) are real particles or quasiparticles. Those things can send wave movement. That can affect only another WIMP. This means that: 

A hidden force. Between those particles. It is wave movement. In the same way as all four fundamental interactions are. This means that the “fifth force”. It could be the wave effect between WIMPs. And then we can ask. What kind of particle could the WIMP be? The particle could be very massive. But it also could tunnel through other particles. So could those WIMPs be extremely fast-spinning particles? This means that the very fast spin makes those particles like spaghetti. When those WIMPs spin. 

They bind energy from around them. And that thing can make a gravity-like effect. The spinning particle. It could form energy strings. Similar to how neutron stars or black holes form. Their jet beams. This means. The WIMP could focus energy and aim it. Into. A certain direction. Another model is that the WIMP. It could be some. Kind. Of quasiparticle. 

In this case. The WIMP. It is like a tornado in the quantum field. If that kind of structure forms. The quantum field can create a bulge in that quantum tornado. That quantum tornado presses energy into that bulge. And presses energy into it. This presses the quantum bulge into collapse. That turns it into the shape of a string.  These kinds of quasiparticles. They can pull energy into them. From. Both sides of the structure. That thing can cause a quantum version of an electric arc. That thing. It can form the quantum version of the pressure wave. But what causes that quantum tornado? One suspected thing is tachyon.  

Tachyon is a hypothetical faster-than-light particle. When. Tachyon travels faster-than-light. That particle cannot interact with other particles. But when its speed slows. It must realease its energy to the environment. That energy has a similar shape to the supersonic boom. That forms a model. That could mean photons. Could be the structures that form when tachyons release their energy. And form the ring-shaped energy string. In that process, the tachyon transforms into some other particle. That particle could be the Higgs Boson. Or some other particle that is a very similar, short-lived, high-energy particle. When the hypothetical tachyon releases its energy. 

This process form the energy string. That looks like a wheel. When. That energy string travels out from the particle. It forms low-pressure energy behind it. Maybe a single tachyon cannot make anything fundamental. But if there are billions and billions of tachyons. Those things have an effect. In some models, tachyons form outside the universe. Or in cosmic voids. This means they could be “normal” particles. That travel faster than they should. When those particles hit a denser quantum field. They. Release their extra energy. This means they turn into some other particles. That we already know. 

https://scitechdaily.com/dark-matters-secret-force-could-reshape-our-understanding-of-the-universe/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly_interacting_massive_particle

Exploding white dwarfs and neutron stars uncover primordial black holes.

“Primordial black holes may pass through white dwarfs and ignite a subset of Type Ia supernovae. New models suggest these hidden encounters could reproduce observed explosion signatures while leaving distinctive chemical traces across the Milky Way. Credit: SciTechDaily.com. “(ScitechDaily, Invisible Black Holes Could Be Triggering Supernovae)

It is possible that so-called hidden black holes can trigger white dwarf explosions. The so-called primordial black holes could be very small. They can form a shell that resembles a planet or even a dwarf planet. Those very small black holes can sometimes impact white dwarfs. Or even neutron stars or magnetars. When a small primordial black hole impacts a white dwarf. 

This event causes a strong nuclear reaction. The carbon atoms in the white dwarf melt together. That primordial black hole is so small that it cannot pull the white dwarf into it in one bite. The black hole rips the white dwarf into pieces. And turns it into liquid or gas. Before. It pulls that matter inside it.

The white dwarf does not involve van der Waals bonds. Atoms, mainly oxygen and carbon, are very close together. That causes collapse in their electron shells. Those atoms are actually in the form. They are extremely ionized. If some energy impact, like a GRB or FRB, hits that thing. It can cause a Type 1a supernova. 

“Schematic Illustration of a Primordial Black Hole Passing Through a White Dwarf. Schematic illustration of the primordial black hole passing through a white dwarf. Along its trajectory, the gravitational force of the passing black hole creates tidal heating. “(ScitechDaily, Invisible Black Holes Could Be Triggering Supernovae)

“To the surrounding matter inside the white dwarf. As the heated matter reaches the threshold temperature (<~0.5 billion Kelvin), the hydrostatic carbon burning will exceed the neutrino cooling, creating an uncontrolled burning. “(ScitechDaily, Invisible Black Holes Could Be Triggering Supernovae)

When. The burning zone is large enough. The heated matter can form. A local thermonuclear runaway which triggers the later Type Ia supernova explosion. Credit: Generated using Gemini AI (Banana Pro)) (ScitechDaily, Invisible Black Holes Could Be Triggering Supernovae)

“A Type Ia supernova (read: "type one-A") is a supernova that occurs in binary systems (two stars orbiting one another) in which one of the stars is a white dwarf. The other star can be anything from a giant star to an even smaller white dwarf. ” ”(Wikipedia, Type 1a Supernova)

“Physically, carbon–oxygen white dwarfs with a low rate of rotation are limited to below 1.44 solar masses (M☉). Beyond this "critical mass", they reignite and in some cases trigger a supernova explosion; this critical mass is often referred to as the Chandrasekhar mass, but is marginally different from the absolute Chandrasekhar limit, where electron degeneracy pressure is unable to prevent catastrophic collapse.”(Wikipedia, Type 1a Supernova)

If. There are electrons in the core. That doesn’t form the fusion. Oxygen and carbon ions. There. Atomic cores are against each other without electron shells. The strong energy load causes a situation. There, those ions melt together. Releasing lots of energy. 

Another thing that releases energy is the fusion between carbon atoms. That reaction releases an extremely strong energy load. Another version of the white dwarf explosion can be the case. There, the black hole’s energy beam hits the white dwarf. That could cause a fusion reaction between carbon and oxygen atoms. That combination is the most common in white dwarfs. Another version is the heavy white dwarfs. These are formed of carbon and neon. 

The same way as when a small black hole faces a neutron star. This means that the neutron star’s iron shell detonates immediately. The detonation cannot destroy the neutron core. But the effect is extremely rough. The neutron bonds can resist that power. But the neutron star. It sends gamma- and X-ray radiation. 

A black hole’s gravity field. It can turn a neutron star into neutron smoke. That releases a lot of energy in that reaction. Those reactions can uncover the existence of the primordial black holes. The primordial black hole is the thing. That could detonate a white dwarf or neutron star. The detonation. That happens in a lone white dwarf. 

If a white dwarf detonates. Without visible reason. That could uncover a small black hole.  Same way, if a neutron star starts to send unexpected X- or gamma-rays. And there are no observable material disks. Or some marks of a merger with another neutron star. That thing can be the thing. That uncovers the existence of low-mass black holes. 

https://scitechdaily.com/invisible-black-holes-could-be-triggering-supernovae/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_Ia_supernova

Reseachers found missing fermionic (or baryonic) matter.

 

"Caption:Simulated gas distribution (blue, green, and yellow colors) around galaxies (white dots on the image). The study finds that gas in our Universe extends farther from galaxies than most simulations predict, indicating strong activity from galaxies that have expelled gas away from galaxy groups.Credit: IllustrisTNG" (MIT News, Diffuse puffs of “missing” matter surround most galaxies)

Reseachers found missing fermionic (or baryonic) matter. And could that be the route to finding the source of dark energy?

Could the extremely cold material cloud outside the universe be the reason for the universe’s expansion? If there is an extremely cold material cloud in space. Its energy minimum is lower than that in the observable universe. That makes that matter invisible. That means that. The dark energy. That expands the universe. It could be the virtual effect. Caused by the hypothetical “universal Oort Cloud” of the fermionic material outside the visible universe. Here I write fermionic. The reason for that is that matter must not be in protons and neutrons. Those particles are baryons. And atoms are baryonic objects. But. Those hypothetical clouds. They can be free quarks or some other fermions like low-energy electrons. So here I use fermionic instead of baryonic.

"The spatial distribution of fast radio burst signal across the sky (above), compared against the galaxy distributions (below). The study has found a significant correlation between the two distributions, revealing missing baryonic matter in the Universe.Credit: Haochen Wang" (MIT News, Diffuse puffs of “missing” matter surround most galaxies)

Reseachers found missing fermionic matter in space between galaxies and galaxy clusters. This means this. There could be lots of matter in the universe. We cannot see it because we are in our solar system and galaxy. The temperature in our solar system is higher than outside the partially hypothetical Oort Cloud and the Kuiper belt. This makes it hard to detect weak IR objects outside the heliopause. The small dwarf planets and asteroids outside Pluto’s orbit are confirmed. 

Most of those objects are maybe metric or centimeter class. The diameter of the Oort Cloud is a mystery. But many times. When people talk about the Kuiper belt and Oort Cloud, they mean the same thing. The asteroid and dust cloud around the solar system. The size of that cloud is enormous. And that means that it causes scattering effects. That makes it hard to get an IR signature from objects that are behind it. The warmer objects cover those colder objects behind them. Even if the temperature difference between those objects is less than a degree. Energy travels to a lower-energy area. 

Kuiper belt and Oort Cloud. Could. This kind of structure? But on a larger scale. Surround the entire universe? If the ultimate large-scale version of matter cloud surrounds the universe. That thing could cause a gravitational effect that expands the universe. We could see this kind of material structure and its interaction as dark energy. If. Energy travels only to that cloud. That makes it invisible. If the energy level of reflection is lower. 

Same way. The temperature in our galaxy, along with brightness, is higher than outside it. This means that the Oort Cloud and matter in our galaxy extend beyond our galaxy. Matter in our galaxy and in our solar system shines brighter.  Than matter outside it. The reason for that is the scattering of light from our Sun and billions of other stars. We can compare this situation with cases where we drive a car in a snowstorm. When we turn on our headlights, we can see only the snow. The reason for that is reflection from the snowflakes. This means inside the universe and outside it. Could be a similar effect. 

Then the energy level in the universe is. There can be lots of matter that we cannot see, because it's so cold.  Here I mean fermionic matter. And the shine of other material covers it under its IR brightness. And of course. Dark matter is one of the mysteries. 

“The filament is made up of hot intergalactic gas (shown in mottled black-yellow), a type of ‘ordinary matter’ that has proven really difficult for astronomers to find.” (ESA)

There is a possibility that the temperature outside the universe could be below the energy minimum inside the universe. This means that energy moves out from the universe. And if there is no such high-energy reflection, it can travel back into the universe. That can cause a situation where we cannot see that matter. For sending. A reflection that can penetrate the universe. The reflecting particle. It must have such a high energy level. That the energy in that reflection. Is higher than the energy level in the universe. 

But reseachers found missing matter outside the galaxies. And outside the galaxy clusters. This means that high-energy reactions. They can throw matter out from the galaxy clusters. This causes. An idea.  That maybe there is lots of matter that is even harder to detect. But the Kuiper belt and Oort Cloud. They can be used as a base for conclusions. 

When the diameter of the galaxies is about 100 million light-years. The diameter. The missing material cloud is about 4-5 billion light-years. So could there be a large material cloud outside the visible universe? That material cloud of extremely low-energy matter could pull the universe outward. So, could that kind of material cloud explain dark energy as a virtual effect? The reason for the virtual effect could be extremely low-energy material outside the visible universe. 

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/XMM-Newton/The_models_were_right_astronomers_find_missing_matter

https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/much-more-violent-than-predicted-a-chunk-of-the-universes-missing-matter-was-powerfully-hurled-out-of-galaxies

https://news.mit.edu/2026/missing-matter-diffuse-puffs-surround-most-galaxies-0721

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud

Barnard’s Star’s planets are weirder and more hostile than. Nobody expected.

“Artist’s illustration of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld” (ScitechDaily, These Nearby Alien Planets Are Stranger – and More Hostile – Than Expected)

Barnard’s Star is a small red dwarf. Slightly larger than Jupiter. The size of Barnard’s Star is two times that of Jupiter. But its mass is 150 times bigger. The age of that star is about 10 billion years.  Barnard’s Star has four planets. Those planets are sub-Earths. Mass between Venus and Mars. Those sub-Earths have weaker gravity. And Barnard’s Star's massive mass eruptions could reach their surface. If. Those planets have an atmosphere. They must have strong magnetic fields. That magnetic field should be as strong as. It drives those mass eruptions away from their surface and atmosphere. If those mass eruptions impact a planet’s atmosphere, they wipe it out into space immediately. 

“Just under six light-years from Earth, Barnard’s Star hosts four small worlds unlike any planet in our own Solar System. The nearby star, second only to Alpha Centauri in proximity to the Sun, now has its most detailed planetary profile yet.”(ScitechDaily, These Nearby Alien Planets Are Stranger – and More Hostile – Than Expected)

“All four planets, discovered in 2025, are smaller than Earth and Venus but larger than Mars. No planet within that size range exists in the Solar System.”(ScitechDaily, These Nearby Alien Planets Are Stranger – and More Hostile – Than Expected)

There are discussions about whether those planets' mass is enough to cause the wobbling movement of Barnard’s Star. Or could there be some more massive object that hides somewhere near that star? Sometimes that wobbling movement is explained as a rocket effect from those mass eruptions from that red dwarf. But legend remains. 

“Size comparison between Jupiter, Barnard's Star, and the Sun”. (Wikipedia, Barnard's Star)

"Barnard's Star has a mass of about 0.16 solar masses (M☉), and a radius about 0.2 times that of the Sun. Thus, although Barnard's Star has roughly 150 times the mass of Jupiter (MJ), its radius is only roughly twice as large, due to its much higher density. Its effective temperature is about 3,220 kelvin, and it has a luminosity of only 0.0034 solar luminosities. Barnard's Star is so faint that if it were at the same distance from Earth as the Sun is, it would appear only 100 times brighter than a full moon, comparable to the brightness of the Sun at 80 astronomical units." (Wikipedia, Barnard's Star)

"Barnard's Star has 10–32% of the solar metallicity. Metallicity is the proportion of stellar mass made up of elements heavier than helium and helps classify stars relative to the galactic population. Barnard's Star seems to be typical of the old, red dwarf population II stars, yet these are also generally metal-poor halo stars. While sub-solar, Barnard's Star's metallicity is higher than that of a halo star and is in keeping with the low end of the metal-rich disk star range; this, plus its high space motion, has led to the designation "intermediate population II star", between a halo and disk star. However, some recently published scientific papers have given much higher estimates for the metallicity of the star, very close to the Sun's level, between 75 and 125% of the solar metallicity." (Wikipedia, Barnard's Star)

They are more hostile than people thought. The superflares from that small red dwarf are impacting those planets. The age of that small star is about two times that of the Sun. But its small size makes it unstable. The planets must orbit it very close. And that means their surface is under a heavy particle bombardment. Radiation from Barnard’s Star is far on the red side of the electromagnetic spectrum. This means that Barnard’s Star transmits more IR radiation than the Sun. 

Those planets, if they are in the habitable zone. They are under heavy radiation because their dayside is locked to that star. The fact is that. Life as we know it on those planets is impossible. The red dwarfs. They might have habitable planets. But Barnard’s Star is not one of those stars. There, lifeforms as a form. As we know. Are possible. Those planets. And their tiny star. They are so different from Earth. That life as we know it could be possible. 

Then we must realize. That. Those red dwarf stars and their planets are so weird. 

That we cannot make any common models for those planets. Or. Maybe. We should say that the Sun is so weird. That we cannot make models for the most common star type in the universe. So, the locked planets are a more common planet type in the habitable zone. Barnard star. It was the first candidate star. That reseachers predicted. To host exoplanets. 

 The proper motion of that star is wobbling. That means that astronomers have believed Barnard’s Star could host a solar system since the 1960s. First reseachers thought that there was some kind of. Super-Earth. Orbiting that red dwarf. But then those suspicions vanished. Until. Those four super-Earths were found in 2025.

“Artist's conception of a planet in orbit around a red dwarf” (Wikipedia, Barnard’s Star)

 “Barnard's Star has been subject to multiple claims of planets that were later disproven. From the early 1960s to the early 1970s, Peter van de Kamp argued that planets orbited Barnard's Star. His specific claims of large gas giants were refuted in the mid-1970s after much debate. In November 2018, a candidate super-Earth planetary companion was reported to orbit Barnard's Star. It was believed to have a minimum mass of 3.2 M🜨 and orbit at 0.4 AU. However, work presented in July 2021 refuted the existence of this planet” (Wikipedia, Barnard’s Star)

We must realize. That van der Kamp. He was a trained astronomer. Who had the right to believe in the existence. Van der Kamp was wrong about those planets’ size. Confirmed planets were small sub-Earths. But those planets are very close to Barnard’s Star. That means friction from that star’s atmosphere should slow those planets’ speed. That means those planets could fall to that red dwarf. So could there be some “favorable Jupiter” outside that solar system? The favorable Jupiter means a massive object that stabilizes those planets’ trajectory. That object’s distance depends on its mass. 

So, if the mass of “favorable Jupiter” is two times Jupiter's. That means it orbits at a distance of two times Jupiter's distance. This distance also depends on the mass of the central star. This means that if the favorable Jupiter is at a very long distance from its star. That means its temperature is very low. And the red dwarf’s radiation impacts that hypothetical planet. It's very weak. Its temperature would be just higher. Than. absolute zero, or zero kelvin. 

The existence of those exoplanets was confirmed in 2025. Those four planets are larger than Mars. But smaller than Venus. There is a lot of magnesium in that solar system. When. We say something about a planet’s possible lifeforms. And how habitable those planets really are. We must say that if some planet seems hostile to humans. That planet is not hostile to creatures. That formed there. Even the most hellish planet is paradise for its endemic species. And here I don’t mean intelligent species. 

https://scitechdaily.com/these-nearby-alien-planets-are-stranger-and-more-hostile-than-expected/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard%27s_Star

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard's_Star_b

2024 article. Published just before those exoplanets were found. 

https://www.astronomy.com/science/discovery-of-a-tiny-exoplanet-sheds-new-light-on-a-very-old-star/

2018 article: Interesting information about the search for Barnard B. 

https://www.astronomy.com/science/the-complicated-history-of-planets-around-barnards-star/