In space, no one can hear the sound of screaming, but we may be able to hear the sound of a black hole, an account revealed Exoplanets On NASA’s Twitter account, listeners can hear the sound of a black hole from 200 million light-years away from the human ear, according to the New York Post.
The space agency also used the tweet to address the widely misunderstood idea that there is no sound between stars, writing: “The misconception that there is no sound in space arises because most of space is a vacuum, and provides no means for sound waves to travel.”
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
And the account continued: “The galaxy cluster contains so much gas that we picked up a real sound, here it is amplified and mixed with other data to hear a black hole!”
The account is run by a team of scientists who investigate exoplanets or celestial bodies outside our solar system. Perseus The discovery was initially released in May in honor of NASA’s Black Hole Week. The data was discovered by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory..