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Weird Wide Web - First sign of a black hole

───   15:12 Mon, 09 May 2022

Weird Wide Web - First sign of a black hole | News Article

NASA has captured the sound of a black hole for the first time and it sounds just like you imagined it would.

Posted on dailyrecord, the amazing feat was achieved as a result of the "echoes", which are space phenomena released in the form of X-rays. NASA said in a statement: "In some ways, this sonification is unlike any other done before because it revisits the actual sound waves discovered in data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The popular misconception that there is no sound in space originates with the fact that most of space is essentially a vacuum, providing no medium for sound waves to propagate through.   "A galaxy cluster, on the other hand, has copious amounts of gas that envelop the hundreds or even thousands of galaxies within it, providing a medium for the sound waves to travel."

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This black hole gained celebrity status in science after an image was released from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project in 2019.

 NASA added: "The sound waves were extracted in radial directions, that is, outwards from the centre. The signals were then synthesised into the range of human hearing by scaling them upward by 57 and 58 octaves above their true pitch. Read more on this story here. If perhaps you want to get a bit more information on black holes as a whole (pardon the pun), the video below should be able to give you some pointers.





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