Black hole music

A s has become the wont of major artists, the debut from the Black Hole dropped so suddenly on Sunday that it might as well have landed from outer space. Which, er, in fact it did. The sounds – striking, eerie, disturbing but strangely soothing and balm-like – have been compared to Björk but will also be recognisable to anyone familiar with Brian Eno’s 1983 ambient colossus

In this new sonification of Perseus, the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time. The sound waves were extracted in radial directions, that is, outwards from the center. The signals were then resynthesized into the range of human hearing by scaling them upward by 57 and 58 octaves above their true pitch—or in other words, they are being heard 144 quadrillion and 288 quadrillion times higher than their original frequency. Credit: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Cambridge/C. Reynolds et al.; Sonification: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida) The universe is rife with the hum of celestial melodies—but it’s only relatively recently that humans have developed the technology to be able to hear them. A team of scientists at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory were able to extract and make audible previously identified sound waves from a nearly 20-year-old image of the Perseus galaxy cluster—a collection so full of galaxies, it’s assumed to be one of the most massive objects in the universe. It’s one of the closest clusters to Earth, around 240 light-years away. “This sort of bespoke method is really about extrapolating something new out of this archival information,” says These short sonifications typically take a few hours to create, but with the right data, can be completed using sound engineering software and other publicly available computer programs, like The sonification of the supermassive black hole at the ...

When the world stopped in awe last week to gaze at the photos released from the James Webb Space Telescope, the snapshots accomplished a challenging feat: they made astronomy accessible to the general public. “Black Hole Symphony” performance at the Museum of Science this summer do the same, bringing the science of the universe to everyday listeners through music. “It takes audiences on this journey straight to the heart of a black hole galaxy,” composer and conductor David Ibbett said on Boston Public Radio Friday. The show, which can only be performed in planetariums like the Museum of Science’s, combines 360 degrees of visuals with a piece from the chamber orchestra inspired by the galaxy. As Ibbett explained it, cellist Johnny Mok plays representations of gravitational waves, flutist and piccoloist Jessica Smith plays representations of X-rays and gamma rays and singer Agnes Coakley Cox serves as the “voice of the universe,” alongside guitarist Matt Russo and violinist Ryan Shannon. Ibbett grew up in a house of scientists but trained as a classical musician. The symphony, three years in the making, was born out of conversations between him and a scientist at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “We figured out ways that you can use your ears to really experience science in a way that you can't unless you have a lot of training to know how to read graphs and data,” he said. • • • The symphony sold out all its initial dates, but recently added another show on...

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