Haunting Audio Clip of Sound Waves Rippling out of a Supermassive Black Hole

a reply to: gortex

For some reason all I could think of when listening to the BH was “how perfect it would fit in this song’s intro…”



“Some light can never be seen…”

That was indeed creepy as hell, it's the sounds of stars, systems, and worlds being squished into the singularity.

Thank you so much for this post. That was truly incredible. Please share any more audio clips if you have them.

originally posted by: gortex
The voice of the Ancients.

This sonification of the black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster was created using 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.

In this new sonification of Perseus, the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time. The sound waves were extracted in radial directions, that is, outwards from the center. The signals were then resynthesized into the range of human hearing by scaling them upward by 57 and 58 octaves above their true pitch. Another way to put this is that they are being heard 144 quadrillion and 288 quadrillion times higher than their original frequency. (A quadrillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000.) The radar-like scan around the image allows you to hear waves emitted in different directions. In the visual image of these data, blue and purple both show X-ray data captured by Chandra. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM

I wonder what happens if you play it BACKWARDS !
Nobody has yet dared to try !

cool!


i could have used it about 1o yrs ago.

Imagine dying like this?