An audio magazine latterly partake in by NASA has entrance the imagination of people online and , honestly , freaked them out . What on Earth did NASA portion out ? Oh , only the eery phone of a black hole . Yes , it ’s creepy-crawly as hell .

NASA really released thesonificationof a twosome of fatal holes for Black Hole Weekback in May , but the agency ’s Exoplanets Twitter handle of late shared the audio clip again – and it ’s bollix up the great unwashed ’s minds . Not only can we hear what a contraband maw sound like , but it ’s take exception the idea that there is no sound in quad .

According to the place agency , sound has been associated with the black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster since 2003 . That was when astronomers discovered that ripple in the cluster ’s hot accelerator because of press undulation send out from the dark fix could be read into musical notes . However , at 57 octave below mediate C , humans could n’t hear it .

This huge black hole sits over 200 million light - years by from Earth , snuggle at the center of the mish - mash of galaxies shrouded in hot gaseous state that make up the Perseus cluster . It ’s this gas that allow for the sonification – the translation ofastronomical data point into phone – of this sinister hole , although in a agency that has not been done before .

It habituate actual sound waves find out in data point from the Chandra X - ray Observatory . NASApointed outthat the misconception that " there is no sound in outer space because infinite is a vacuum " is base on the idea that there is no metier for sound undulation to travel through . However , a galaxy cluster with mickle of gas enwrap its inhabitants works just fine for sound waves .

scientist extracted these antecedently - discover heavy wave and resynthesized them into a orbit human can learn by scale them up by 57 and 58 octaves . Or , as NASA describe it , " they are being heard 144 quadrillion and 288 quadrillion times higher than their original frequence . "

Of course , not everyone is appreciating this incredible feat of engineering that allow us another glimpse at these mysterious objective .