A silent traveler has recently made its presence known in the dark velvet of our solar system. This has sparked a debate that goes back to the very beginning of time. 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar visitor ever recorded, has spent the last few months doing things that no one expected and going against the basic ideas of astrophysics. The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Chile found the object on July 1, 2025.
At first, they thought it was a common near-Earth asteroid, but its hyperbolic trajectory showed that it was actually a galactic interloper. The scientific community is used to strange things happening in space, but the latest news about this icy interloper has taken a turn for the extraordinary: someone says that this object is not only old, but possibly 14 billion years old, which would make it older than the Sun and maybe even the universe itself.
