NASA: Black hole sounds heard for first time

One of the mysteries of space has been sorted out once and for all, with sounds from a galaxy cluster released for the first time by NASA.

By : Quick Insurance Guru By : Quick Insurance Guru 22 August 2022 22 August 2022

To some, the sound is eerie, almost haunted; to others the noise sounds more like the TARDIS (from Doctor Who) is coming in to land.

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After more than 11.5 million views the Twitterverse has lit up, with some proclaiming the noise is "creepy", while others say it sounds like a race car engine.

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"The sound you hear is amplified a lot, and other sounds are interpreted from light data," it said.

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"Most space is a vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel," it Tweeted. "A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound."

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"In this sonification of Perseus, the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time," it said.

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The space agency says there is a misconception there is no sound in space. "The sound waves were extracted outward from the centre."

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