The Sonics Of Space

Sonics and singing ..... the words that form the focus of this post. However, we're not talking about human or even animal voices here. No, this is about singing black holes in outer space!

Interested as I am in all things 'sonic', it was with great fascination and interest that I recently about an unusual astronomical discovery. Apparently, English astronomers at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge have discovered a black hole in a far distant cluster of galaxies (about 250 million light years away) which sings.

The sound waves from the black hole take the form of a single note and are believed to be the lowest sound waves ever detected from an object within our universe. The equipment used to pick up this 'singing black hole' also makes for fascinating reading - the astronomers used a NASA orbiting x-ray telescope that sees the Universe in x-ray light. Now that's what I call innovative technology!

For more on this amazing discovery visit NASA's own page here

More general reading about audiosonic science and acoustic frequencies visit our own web page here.