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Here's what a supermassive black hole sounds like

By T.K. Randall
May 14, 2022 · Comment icon 19 comments

Image Credit: Bronzwaer/Davelaar/Moscibrodzka/Falcke/Radboud University
Scientists have produced an audio clip from acoustic waves propagating through the gas around a supermassive black hole.
The eerie audio, which originates from a black hole 250 million light-years away, was produced through a process known as sonification which involves turning data into sound.

While the actual sound would be inaudible to human ears due to its super low pitch, the clip has been enhanced by bringing the notes up several dozen octaves so that it is possible to hear them.

The resulting audio is undeniably eerie - a sort of otherworldly howling that's difficult to describe.

You can check out the clip for yourself in the video below.



Source: Science Alert | Comments (19)




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Comment icon #10 Posted by Manwon Lender 2 years ago
Thanks for the laugh my friend, give them all hell. Best wishes Joc, hope all is well!
Comment icon #11 Posted by locomekipkachelfantje 2 years ago
Next they'll announce that they've also detected an odd smell emitting from the hole.
Comment icon #12 Posted by jmccr8 2 years ago
Hi Manwon Good to see you back again.
Comment icon #13 Posted by Manwon Lender 2 years ago
Thanks, but my stay will be short lived my friend. Best wishes, hope you and yours are well!
Comment icon #14 Posted by susieice 2 years ago
Good to see you again Manwon. Hope all is well with you and yours.
Comment icon #15 Posted by Manwon Lender 2 years ago
Thank you Susie, but this will be short lived. Everything is fine, I have just been dealing with life. Hope you and yours are also well, thanks for your comments!
Comment icon #16 Posted by 95-Nasty 2 years ago
I might be missing the point, but i didn't think you could hear sounds in space, i thought soundwaves didn't travel through space.
Comment icon #17 Posted by qunaquna 2 years ago
Looks to me like these are just sounds generated from images, Fruity Loops (FL studio) had such synth for years.
Comment icon #18 Posted by joc 2 years ago
No, you cannot hear any sounds in near-empty regions of space. Sound travels through the vibration of atoms and molecules in a medium (such as air or water). In space, where there is no air, sound has no way to travel. so .... perhaps sound can exist inside the black hole...(I don't see how) ...and no one has a way really to 'hear' them even if they did.  But they expect us to just believe everything they say.  smh
Comment icon #19 Posted by Abramelin 2 years ago
Maybe you should have first read the article. Quote from the LadBible link: "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." Interestingly, sound has been associated with this black hole since 2003, after astronomers discovered it sent out pressure waves that produced ripples in... [More]


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