Black hole turns out to have a sound, this is the sound caught from a distance of 240 million light years

KOMPAS.com – NASA scientists have captured sounds across the universe, from screams black hole (blackhole) to gas explosions from distant stars.

Reported Populer Science, May 20, 2022, earlier this month (May 4, 2022) NASA released the first recording or sonification of what two black holes sound like.

The universe is full of heavenly melodies humming, but only recently have humans developed the technology to be able to hear them.

A team of scientists at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory was able to extract and render the stored sound waves audible to humans.

The sound waves come from the nearly 20-year-old Perseus galaxy cluster. It is a collection of galaxies, one of the closest clusters to Earth, which is about 240 light years away.

Quoted Sky, May 6, 2022, this is the first time astronomers have discovered that ripples in the hot gas surrounding the Perseus black hole can be translated into sound.

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NASA explains how scientists convert these sound waves so they can be heard by humans.

The trick is that sound waves are resynthesized into the range of human hearing by increasing them 57 and 58 octaves above the actual pitch, but not played back using a violin or other instrument.

The resulting audio sounds eerily like the music of Hans Zimmer, the composer who wrote it soundtrack for sci-fi hits, among others Blade Runner 2049 and Interstellar.

In society there is an assumption that there is no sound in outer space, because most of space is a vacuum so sound waves cannot propagate.

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