NASA has released an audio of the sound emitted from a black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster, more than 200 million light-years away from Earth.
Perseus is known to be an 11 million-light-year-wide bundle of hundreds of galaxies shrouded by hot gas.
In 2003, astronomers discovered that the pressure waves sent out by the black hole at the center of Perseus caused ripples in the hot gas surrounding it that could be translated into a sound note. However, this was not audible to the human ear.
NASA translated data into the sound of the black hole
The actual sound waves were discovered in data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Now, NASA has translated this astronomical data into sound using a process called sonification.
Scientists have released the eerie, Hans Zimmer-like audio captured from a black hole at the centre of the Perseus galaxy cluster 🔭🌌
Read more: https://t.co/wCsDHN5sTR pic.twitter.com/nEsOZlUnYi
— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 6, 2022