The universe vibrates
Jun 15, 2022
5 minutes
by Tobias Fischer
Beat / Your album makes use of data about black holes, and white dwarfs, among others. How is it even possible to create music with this data? There is no sound in space after all.
It is true that there is no sound in space as space is a giant vacuum without air molecules. Recent research shows that there is potentially a way a black hole could generate a sort of sound waves. But for this, you would need a jet stream - a stream of gas moving close to the speed of light, produced by the black hole. And it would have to slam into hot gas pervading a giant galaxy in our universe. Right now, to listen to a black hole, you need to find
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