In space, no one can hear you when you shout – unless you're some sort of massive black hole. NASA proved it on Sunday by sharing one video containing the sound of a black hole.
And if you're wondering how o sound travels through the void of space, NASA reports:
"The misconception that there is no sound in space comes because most of space is a void, providing no way transportof sound waves. A cluster of galaxies has so much gas that we were able to capture the sound. Here it is amplified and mixed with other data. Let's listen to a black hole", he said on Twitter account of NASA.
The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole! pic.twitter.com/RobcZs7F9e
— NASA Exoplanets (@NASAExoplanets) August 21
The galaxy cluster you're "hearing" is Perseus, data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and recording released in May for NASA's Black Hole Week.
As NASA explained it at the time, "astronomers discovered that the waves emitted by the black hole caused ripples in the hot gas of the galaxy cluster that could be translated into notes."
To us, it sounds like the beginning of some really awful dubstep.
