Sonification of ripples: The sounds of a black hole singing - Business Standard

The Chandra astronomers recently 'sonified' these ripples by speeding up the signals to 57 or 58 octaves above their original pitch, boosting their frequency quadrillions of times to make them audible

In space you can’t hear a black hole scream, but apparently you can hear it sing. In 2003 astrophysicists wor­king with NASA’s orbiting Cha­n­­dra X-ray Observatory detected a pattern of ripples in … [+2691 chars]

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