NASA black holes sound

2022 - 8 - 24

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NASA posts what a black hole sounds like. One review: 'Cosmic ... (The Washington Post)

What does a black hole sound like? Both “creepy” and “ethereally beautiful,” according to people who've listened to an audio clip posted on Twitter by NASA.

But the value of sonification, she said, is that it made her “question things in different ways.” Another [said](https://twitter.com/cybxrart/status/1561690611983343616): “New genre just dropped: Cosmic Horror.” “It was such a wonderful representation of what existed in my mind,” the visualization scientist and emerging technology lead at Chandra told The Washington Post. But the idea that there is no sound in space is actually a “popular misconception,” the agency said. So, with other colleagues, she decided to try something new: sonification, or the process of translating astronomical data into sound. But it’s sometimes used to make things seem more ‘profound’ than they are, like here,” Lintott added. we would then be able to hear it,” Smith said. Arcand said the idea took shape during the coronavirus pandemic. But humans couldn’t hear that note because its frequency was too low — the equivalent to a B-flat, some 57 octaves below the middle C note of a piano, according to NASA. So astronomers at Chandra remixed the sound and increased its frequency by 57 and 58 octaves. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!— NASA Exoplanets (@NASAExoplanets) A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound.

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Here's what a black hole sounds like, according to NASA. Yes, it's ... (USA TODAY)

NASA this week shared an audio clip on social media that allows you to “hear” a black hole. No surprise, the sound is terrifying.

The signals "are being heard 144 quadrillion and 288 quadrillion times higher than their original frequency,” NASA added. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!” [ confirmed in a news release.

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Terrifying ghosts or new Björk? What Nasa's black hole recording ... (The Guardian)

Eerie audio emanating from the Perseus cluster reminds social media users of sci-fi films and hungry stomachs.

One Twitter user thought it sounded like Pink Floyd’s [Echoes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBca3xf-j3o), and another joked that it was new music from the Icelandic singer [Björk](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/19/i-got-really-grounded-and-loved-it-how-grief-going-home-and-gabber-built-bjorks-new-album). “This sounds just like my stomach at 6.30pm when the early evening shows have wrapped. And one section of the internet felt it sounded more like bodily functions than anything else. The sound is edited so that it can be heard by human ears. [Event Horizon](https://twitter.com/theelusivegoose/status/1561662561598185475) and the horror film [Silent Hill](https://twitter.com/DAMdude85/status/1561809659740168194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw). [wrote](https://twitter.com/Honickman/status/1561543921318170627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw).

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NASA reveals eerie soundtrack of black hole (Toronto Star)

NASA recently tweeted an unearthly soundtrack from a black hole centred in the Perseus galaxy cluster, amplifying sounds that have people spooked yet ...

“In this sonification of Perseus, the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time,” NASA’s tweet explains. [Chandra X-ray Observatory at NASA](https://chandra.si.edu/sound/), is the “process that translates data into sound.” “The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel,” NASA

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NASA Recorded The Sound From A Black Hole, And It's Super Eerie (ScienceAlert)

NASA has released a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away.

Optical data hold the middle range, and X-rays are at the top. Another famous supermassive black hole also got the sonification treatment. Because the intracluster medium is so hot, it glows brightly in X-rays. The lowest note, the one identified back in 2003, is a B-flat, just over 57 octaves below middle C; at that pitch, its frequency is 10 million years. The Chandra X-ray Observatory allowed not only for the detection of the sound waves initially, but for the sonification project. The sounds aren't just a scientific curiosity, though.

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Listen to the spooky sounds of a black hole in NASA audio (Business Insider)

Black holes push waves of pressure through the galaxies around them. It can sound like a wailing alien ghost, or like beautiful music.

Because that data combination required more creativity than simply scaling up the pitch of a sound, NASA made it into beautiful music. Then, NASA scaled the sounds up from their true pitch to something you can hear, raising them 144 quadrillion and 288 quadrillion times their original frequencies. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound," the NASA account tweeted. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory captured data from the ripples in the Perseus cluster, visible in X-ray, which corresponded to inaudible sounds. [said](https://twitter.com/Rubberbandits/status/1561659570602254341) the black hole sounded like "a billion souls being tortured." [NASA](https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-james-webb-space-telescope-jupiter-auroras-and-rings-2022-8)shared the spooky sounds of a [black hole](https://www.businessinsider.com/black-hole-image-helps-confirm-einsteins-predictions-2022-5)emitting waves of pressure rippling through galaxies.

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NASA audio of a black hole has gone viral. Here's how they created ... (ABC News)

As a terrifyingly low drone goes viral on social media, let's dive into how NASA captures sounds from space, and what else we can hear.

It's quite powerful," says Professor Miller-Jones. So as they scan around the cluster … In its sonifications of the black hole in the M87 galaxy, which was it's capturing slightly different pitches." - The sound waves were extracted outwards, from the centre of the cluster How the sound of a black hole was created

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NASA releases black hole sound: Hear viral audio! Know how it was ... (Jagran Josh)

NASA Black Hole 2022: NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) released an audio of a black hole and the whole internet went crazy.

He further added that sound waves do travel anywhere there is not a perfect vacuum. NASA’s audio of the black hole sounds like a low drone sound making people wonder about their own significance amid the vastness of space. As per NASA, the note was too low to be heard by the humans, because it is 57 Octaves below Middle C. Listen to what black Hole sounds like. NASA Black Hole 2022: NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) released an audio of a black hole and the whole internet went crazy. In no time, the audio of the black hole went viral and was shared in the groups as well as on many popular social media platforms.

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Listen: The creepy sound of a black hole revealed by Nasa (Telegraph.co.uk)

The recording comes from the black hole at the centre of the Persus galaxy cluster, some 240 million light years away from Earth.

belching out incredible songs is a very tantalising thing." A spokesman for Nasa said: "The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. However, some scientists cautioned that the sonification process was often used to make sounds in space appear more "profound" than they actually are. "A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. "Another way to put this is that they are being heard 144 quadrillion and 288 quadrillion times higher than their original frequency," a spokesperson for Nasa said. It can be heard because galaxy clusters contain so much gas that they can allow sound to travel, unlike in vacuums where

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NASA has just released sound from a black hole and it's spooky (WESH Orlando)

NASA's exoplanets Twitter account unveiled audio from the galaxy cluster Perseus, 240 million lightyears away from Earth.

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Listen to NASA recording of black hole audio (The Hill)

NASA has released audio it captured from a black hole, sharing sounds waves that it previously identified but have made audible for the first time.

[black hole](https://thehill.com/tag/black-hole/) [Black Hole](https://thehill.com/social-tags/black-hole/) [galaxy cluster](https://thehill.com/tag/galaxy-cluster/) [nasa](https://thehill.com/tag/nasa/) [NASA](https://thehill.com/social-tags/nasa/) [outer space](https://thehill.com/tag/outer-space/) [sound waves](https://thehill.com/tag/sound-waves/) [Blog Briefing Room](https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/) [Blog Briefing Room](https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/) [Wire](https://thehill.com/homenews/wire/) [House](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/) [See All](https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/) Black holes are parts of space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. [THE HILL TV](https://thehill.com/hilltv/) [Rising](https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/) [See all Hill.TV](https://thehill.com/hilltv) [See all Video](https://thehill.com/video) [Administration](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/) [Education](https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/) [International](https://thehill.com/policy/international/) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [See All](https://thehill.com) [captured the first image](https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-science/astronomers-capture-1st-image-of-milky-ways-huge-black-hole/) of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy in May. [tweeted on Sunday](https://twitter.com/NASAExoplanets/status/1561442514078314496?s=20&t=Pb136voFGt6B-9FNgxL1dQ) that the idea that sound does not exist in space is a misconception. [Blog Briefing Room](https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/)

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Listen to the sound of a black hole, remixed by NASA (Freethink)

NASA scientists have “remixed” the incredibly deep sounds emitted by a black hole 240 million light-years away.

They then determined that the sound was emanating from the cluster’s central black hole. If there is no medium around the object, it can’t create sound — that’s why most things in the vacuum of space are silent. [sonified](https://www.freethink.com/environment/listen-as-this-musician-transforms-scientific-data-into-elaborate-melodies)” other types of astronomical data, representing the [light from a supernova explosion](https://youtu.be/7enAGF1JCpM), the presence of [dark matter in a galaxy cluster](https://youtu.be/K7wAcSQYBZM), and more as audible sounds — giving the public a new way to experience space science. [plays a role](https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/universe/black_hole_sound.html) in the formation of galaxy clusters by controlling the rate of star growth. [told the Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/23/nasa-black-hole-sound/) of her first time listening to the audio. [remixed](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/new-nasa-black-hole-sonifications-with-a-remix.html)” the incredibly deep sounds emitted by a black hole 240 million light-years away, making it possible for humans to hear a black hole for the first time.

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NASA Posts the Eerie Sound of a Black Hole (Greek Reporter)

Nasa posts the sound of a black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster as part of what it described as a remixed sonification.

Follow GR on [Google News ](https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqLQgKIidDQklTRndnTWFoTUtFV2R5WldWcmNtVndiM0owWlhJdVkyOXRLQUFQAQ)and [subscribe here ](https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=Greekreporter)to our daily email! Others had fun with the audio clip, adding an image of an interplanetary dog or remixing it with a new sound that they believed was the closest to a mummy’s voice. The notion that there is no sound in space, however, is false, according to the agency. [latest news](https://greekreporter.com/greek-news) from Greece and the world at [Greekreporter.com](https://greekreporter.com). Hence, Chandra astronomers altered the sound and raised its frequency by fifty-seven and fifty-eight octaves. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!

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What does a black hole sound like? NASA shares (terrifying) audio clip (Today.com)

NASA shared a video this week that gives us a glimpse into what a black hole sounds like — and it's terrifying.

I didn’t plan on sleeping anytime in the foreseeable future, anyway..." "Neat! there's that," Al continued with a smile. Here it’s amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!" "A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we’ve picked up actual sound. [NASA says](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/new-nasa-black-hole-sonifications-with-a-remix.html) the video features a "sonification" of the black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster, which has grappled astronomers after they previously discovered pressure waves in the black hole could be translated into one, inaudible note.

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