Villanova astrophysicist Becka Phillipson wondered what a black hole might sound like. She found an answer by translating X-ray data from a black hole system into musical notes. The first time she ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away.

Her research formed the backdrop for a 13-minute musical composition performed on Saturday at the Chestnut Hill Skyspace, a venue and art installation. The black hole-inspired piece was one of three ...

Data sonification from NASA missions provides a new method to enjoy an arrangement of cosmic objects. These data sonifications translate information collected by various NASA missions — such as the ...

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If, in space, no one can hear you scream, it seems that you can actually hear the sound of a crash when two black holes collide. Using the loudest gravitational wave ever heard, two Australian ...

The composition begins with a deep, almost futuristic-sounding tremor. It’s quickly joined by a piccolo’s lilting melody. A woman’s voice begins the narration: “The X-ray sky: each dot is not a star ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Black holes sound wildly complicated. After all, there are all sorts of bizarre things going on: intense gravity, the warping of the fabric of ...

PHILADELPHIA — Villanova astrophysicist Becka Phillipson wondered what a black hole might sound like. She found an answer by translating X-ray data from a black hole system into musical notes. The ...

When scientists sonify a black hole, they are not literally recording sound. Most of space is empty and "deathly silent," ...