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Ruled out? From Wikipedia:

Identifying one of the many infrared sources as a Dyson sphere would require improved techniques for discriminating between a Dyson sphere and natural sources. Fermilab discovered 17 potential "ambiguous" candidates, of which four have been named "amusing but still questionable". Other searches also resulted in several candidates, which are, however, unconfirmed.



I think aab0 means that this particular galaxy is ruled out as a Dyson sphere, not the possibility of there being one somewhere in the universe.

A Dyson sphere should still emit infrared, unless the aliens can subvert thermodynamics, at which point anything is possible.




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