What does a giant black hole and its galaxy sound like?

Data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory was Sonified.

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55 million light-years from Earth is the location of the elliptical galaxy M 87. The black hole has a mass that is 6.5 billion times that of the sun. This black hole was the first to ever be imaged by the event horizon telescope, which three years ago released a portrait of the black hole's shadow and a bright disk of matter that is being pulled into the black hole's center

The song that M87 and its black hole are singing has been released by scientists after using data collected by a group of telescopes.

The first photo of the monster black hole explained in images is Sagittarius A*.

NASA scientists used data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and radio waves from the ALMA to create a map that plays the sound of M87.

Scientists mapped the wavelength of three different types of radiation emitted by the black hole to create a sound. Medium tones of Hubble's optical light data and the lowest tones of ALMA's radio waves are at the bottom of the map.

As the sound progresses, it creates an audio representation of parts of the black hole. The black hole itself is represented by the bright and loudest part of the map, which is near the beginning of the sonification. The volume and brightness of the song change with the jets of radiation.

One of the best white noise machines is produced when the three radiation sounds blend.

Scientists recorded the sound of a galaxy cluster. Around 250 million light-years away from Earth, a cluster of galaxies in the Perseus constellation is releasing pressure waves into the universe. The black hole at the center of Perseus emits pressure waves that travel through the hot gases in the cluster.

Scientists were able to translate the pressure waves into sound waves that humans can hear. The human ear can hear sound waves at a higher rate than the sound waves can be recorded. The sound of the sound wave can be heard after it is scaled to a higher Frequency.

It is a misconception that sound cannot exist in space because it is a vacuum. The logic behind the misconception is that sound waves need a medium to travel through. There is no such medium in a vacuum, but the gases in the Perseus cluster offer more than enough to record a sound.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's Universe of Learning program have been working together to Sonify the universe and collect the symphony of space.

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