Highlights The black hole is around 250 lightyears away from Earth In a 34-second audio clip, one can relate it to be a mixture of spooky sounds The sound was produced through Data Sonification of a black hole at the Center of the Perseus Galaxy Black Hole: Ever heard a sound of a black hole, a celestial body that is …
People can now ‘listen’ to the centre of the Milky Way as observed in X-ray, optical and infrared light, thanks to a new project which used sonification to turn astronomical images from Chandra and other telescopes into sound. By translating the inherently digital data captured by telescopes in space into images, astronomers create visual representations that would otherwise be invisible …