However, the team says, the signal looks more like ordinary matter shocked by a supernova.
So was Justine Roberts, 46-year-old CEO of the internet business usually regarded as a haven for liberal opinion on babies, sex and other matters, shocked?
Its provocative subject matter was shocking at the time, and there is suspicion it is based on the relationship the three enjoyed before they became famous.
The media's silence and even acquiescence in this matter is shocking.
The boldness of my son's actions — the lies, the excuses, the lack of desire to work hard or succeed – was upsetting enough, but the message that he'd be fine, that his performance didn't matter, was shocking.
Throughout, shocking subject matter — murdered women and children, cringing adolescents, bodies in morgues, grotesque newborns — adds gravity that the works frequently lack.
The company's inability to get this matter resolved has been shocking.
The lack of shock value in the subject matter, 25 years later, is shocking.
The dereliction of duty by the then National Coal Board, the culpability of its mining engineers, and the refusal of its chairman Alf Robens to resign as a matter of honour, still seem shocking.
It is a pre-written tenet of this, or any, pursuit that no matter the shocks, no matter the interruptions or the fears, the games will always go on.
