In a new development on what is going on in space, the US space agency NASA has published a recording of a sound coming from a “black hole” located 250 million light years from Earth.
In the recording, the sound that resembles howling issued by the wind is heard from the center of the Perseus galaxy group, but “NASA” has raised it and enhanced it to be audible to the human ear.
The agency also said in a tweet that the gases surrounding the black hole made its sound audible, although many believe that the vacuum in space prevents the transmission of sounds.
The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we’ve picked up actual sound. Here it’s amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole! pic.twitter.com/RobcZs7F9e
— NASA Exoplanets (@NASAExoplanets) August 21, 2022
In turn, the science Alert website explained that the space “wailing” resembles an “angry and frightening” sound, adding that it is the first time that these sound waves have been extracted and are audible.
He added that converting visual data like this to sound could be a fascinating new way to experience cosmic phenomena that also holds scientific value.
It is indicated that sound waves are usually extracted radially, or outward, from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Perseus cluster, and rotate in a counterclockwise direction.