Something Never Before Seen Passed Between Us and Another Galaxy
Credibility score: 57/100 — Mixed Credibility. Several questionable claims detected. Watch with healthy skepticism.
BSmeter analyzed "Something Never Before Seen Passed Between Us and Another Galaxy" and rated it 57/100 for credibility (a BS score of 43/100 — mixed credibility), on 2026-06-03. Its weakest claim — "Phoebe has the highest statistical chance of being a primordial black hole, supporting dark matter as primordial black holes" — scored 25/100 and was flagged as sketchy. 19 claims were checked against the video transcript. Scores are produced by BSmeter's AI analysis of the transcript, not independent human verification.
Claims analyzed
Star in Large Magellanic Cloud brightened for 1 hour in 2019, not a supernova — OK (60/100)
Event sounds real — spelling of the galaxy is the only red flag here
Phoebe event might help solve dark matter mystery — Opinion (50/100)
Speculative link — microlensing can detect compact objects but doesn't directly prove dark matter
Swinburne team used Dark Energy Camera to detect Phoebe via reanalysis — OK (65/100)
Institution name is off — it's Swinburne, not Swinburn. Details otherwise line up.
Object mass calculated at ~3 lunar masses or 1/30th Earth mass — Solid (75/100)
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First exoplanet found in the Large Magellanic Cloud — Dubious (35/100)
Misnames the galaxy — it's Magellanic, not 'melanic' — and the actual candidate is still unconfirmed.
Sources: A Mysterious Object Passed in Front of a Distant Star for One Hour, and It May Be a Primordial Black Hole, Something just passed between us and a distant star, First Evidence of a Planet Identified Beyond Our Galaxy - NASA Science
Team searched for primordial black holes in Andromeda ~5 years ago — OK (55/100)
Timing is roughly right but no specific team or result named — hard to verify.
Hawking proposed primordial black holes as dark matter — Solid (75/100)
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Hawking proposed Phoebe as dark matter object 100,000x likelier than star — Dubious (45/100)
Hawking link feels retrofitted — 1970s work didn't mention Phoebe or LMC events.
2022 Hubble found first isolated stellar-mass black hole — Solid (85/100)
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Last year confirmed isolated Saturn-mass rogue planet — OK (60/100)
Timing vague — multiple rogue planet candidates but no single 2025 Saturn-mass confirmation dominates.
Parallax from Earth and Gaia gave precise location of the object — OK (65/100)
Parallax method is real but Gaia-to-Earth baseline is only ~1.5M km, not 'millions of km apart' in the dramatic sense — wording oversells it
Phoebe is a rogue planet ejected by dynamical interactions, like one possibly ejected from our solar system — Dubious (40/100)
Rogue planet ejection is plausible but the solar-system comparison is speculative with no supporting evidence cited
Phoebe has the highest statistical chance of being a primordial black hole, supporting dark matter as primordial black holes — Sketchy (25/100)
No published study shows Phoebe is the top primordial-black-hole candidate — this appears to be overstated speculation
A 3-lunar-mass black hole would be only 6 mm across — Solid (80/100)
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Subaru telescope found similar unconfirmed microlensing candidates in Andromeda — Dubious (35/100)
No public Subaru results on Andromeda microlensing candidates matching this description are cited or linked
Lunar-mass objects in Andromeda could be dark matter — Dubious (45/100)
Big leap from one event to entire populations — no confirmation yet.
Microlensing events won't repeat for up to a million years — OK (65/100)
Correct in principle — orbital dynamics make repeats extremely rare.
Roman and Veruin telescopes will detect thousands of microlensing events — Solid (75/100)
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We won't know more until future observations — Opinion (50/100)
Safe hedge — science moves on data, not speculation.
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