NASA Releases Audio of Black Hole

[The Mystical Man]

This is cool:

 

[Nilsi]

I don't buy it. That's just artifacts of the recording equipment you're hearing. 

Edited August 25, 2022 by Nilsi

[The Mystical Man]

1 minute ago, Nilsi said:

I don't buy it. That's just the recording equipment you're hearing.

Read the text in the video.

[Tyler Robinson]

Oh wow that's creepy, the hair on my back stood up, instant anxiety. 

[Nilsi]

2 minutes ago, The Mystical Man said:

Read the text in the video.

I did. You're hearing what's left after whatever the hardware was able to pick up, the editing, the audio compression and your limited hearing capabilities. Calling that "The sound of a black hole" is a joke.

Edited August 25, 2022 by Nilsi

[The Mystical Man]

4 minutes ago, Tyler Robinson said:

Oh wow that's creepy, the hair on my back stood up, instant anxiety. 

Yeah, it's very eerie. But it's also what you'd expect a black hole to sound like.

Edited August 25, 2022 by The Mystical Man

[The Mystical Man]

7 minutes ago, Nilsi said:

I did. You're hearing what's left after whatever the hardware was able to pick up, the editing, the audio compression and your limited hearing capabilities. Calling that "The sound of a black hole" is a joke.

Well, it's better than nothing.

[Nilsi]

1 minute ago, The Mystical Man said:

Well, it's better than nothing.

It's like holding a seashell against your ear.

[Yarco]

I agree with @Nilsi. You can "convert" things into sound that aren't really sound.

1. You can't hear sound in space
2. If some process had to be applied to the audio sample to make it audible to humans, then it's no longer an accurate representation of the sound.

Elephants make infrasonic sounds that can travel several kilometers, but they're ultra-low frequencies that humans can't hear. If you pitch them up so humans can't hear, that's not the actual sound any more, it's just a representation of it.

You can also turn things that don't make sound like a photograph into sounds. Anything represented as data can be translated into different audio pitches and signal lengths. You can "hear" radiation with a Geiger counter, but what you're hearing isn't actually the "sound" of radiation.

That being said, there is something weird and intuitive that the sound provides that kind of gives you insight into how a black hole moves.

And if you think black holes sound creepy... you should check out what the rings of Saturn sound like 

 

[King Merk]

@Yarco no this is what rings of Saturn sounds like

 

Edited August 26, 2022 by King Merk

[Ulax]

Bruh, that's scary as shit lmao