Science24.08.2022 - 13:11

NASA scientists published a spooky black hole «song»

It sounds like a tune for a horror movie.

Фото: from open sources

A team of scientists from NASA has published an excerpt of a soundscape in which a black hole can be heard making sounds.

The object is located near the Perseus cluster at a distance of more than 200 million light years from Earth.

The fact is that the proximity of the black hole to the Perseus gas clouds converts the fluctuating waves into sound, or rather into gas ripples.

This proves the view that there are sounds in space despite the large amount of vacuum around it. It's just that not all sounds are audible.

It should be noted that in 2003, a team of astronomers from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory converted the gas ripple data into sounds as part of the Chandra mission.

However, due to the peculiarities of human hearing, scientists were not immediately able to detect the sound of space.

Therefore, they had to increase the sound vibrations by 57 and 58 octaves.

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