mfb- t1_irw4nbr wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in The vast majority of the 150-400 billion stars in the Milky Way haven't been directly detected. Alpha Centauri is the nearest known star to Sol. What is the probability that there are nearer stars that remain undiscovered? by [deleted]
Computation doesn't destroy the energy. If your system is fed by a Sun-like star you still get a Sun-like excess in radiation. At 6 K or 1/1000 of the Sun's surface temperature you need 1000^4 times the surface area, or a radius of 0.07 light years. The system would show up as an absurdly bright (~20 times the background where we look for 0.001% deviations) and relatively big spot in CMB surveys. You can change the temperature but the result won't change, you can't hide a radiation excess that large close to us. Probably not even 0.001% of it.
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