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Sound recorded by NASA: From the center of a black hole

Sound recorded by NASA from the center of Perseus galaxy cluster blackhole which is 250 lightyears away from the earth.

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Preeti Anand
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Sound recorded by NASA from the blackhole

Sound recorded by NASA from the center of Black hole which is 250 light years away from the earth. The Perseus galaxy cluster is the black hole found in the center by NASA. It is a majestic 11 million-light-year-wide bundle of galaxies shrouded by hot gas. NASA has proved themselves victorious yet again. And questioned themselves by recording an uncanny sound from the black hole.

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Highlights about the black hole

Sound recorded by NASA is an achievement. NASA scientists released an audio with the sound from the black hole. Here are some highlights about the black hole.

1)The black hole is around 250 lightyears away from Earth.

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2)In a 34-second audio clip, one can relate it to be a mixture of spooky sounds

3) Data Sonification produced the sound of a black hole at the Center of the Perseus Galaxy.

NASA has released an audio with the sound recorded from a black hole. It is 250 light years away from our planet. A celestial body that is hundreds of lightyears away from the Earth. NASA has released a 34-second audio clip. You may track slow-moving racing car sounds, winds flowing, and some mix of uncanny sounds. 

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The center of the Perseus galaxy cluster is associated with sound. As per NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, since 2003.

What is the scientific reason behind the sound heard in the black hole?

The black hole caused a wavelet in the cluster's hot gas. That could be translated into a note discovered by the astronomer's workings for years to gather this information. It refers to the one humans cannot hear some 57 octaves below middle C. This new sonification is translating astronomical data into sound. It was recorded by NASA which is being released for NASA's Black Hole Week this year. 

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This particular method of sonification used by NASA is unlike before. It reanalyzes the actual sound waves discovered in NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory data. The widespread misunderstanding is that there is no sound in space. It originates from the fact that space is a vacuum that provides no medium for sound waves to generate. On the other hand, a galaxy cluster has abundant amounts of gas enveloping thousands of galaxies. Providing means for the sound waves to advance.

How did astronomers identify the sound?

The astronomers identified the sound waves before and worked on the audibility of the waves using this sonification. Finally, they succeeded and recorded the sounds for the first time. NASA announced an audio clip on Sunday representing actual sound waves emerging from the gigantic back hole at the center. This area in space is more than 200m lightyears away from Earth.

The astronomers extracted the sound waves recorded in the black hole in radial directions, that is, outwards from the center. The signals were incorporated into the range of human hearing. By scaling them upward by 57 and 58 octaves above their actual pitch. The value of a quadrillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000. These sounds are to be heard 144 quadrillions and 288 quadrillion times higher than their original frequency.

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