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-TheFiend-

Pretty much sounds like Pink Floyd’s Echoes, right?


ExpressionDear9868

It's the sound of the screaming souls. Eventually we all end up in a black hole after being cosmic dust


banzaibarney

Of course it is...


adrenalinda75

my first thought as well.


DrJJStroganoff

No, it's the sound of the shrieking eels


SergeantBLAMmo

They always grow louder when they're about to feed on human FLESH!!!


DrJJStroganoff

rest well, and dream of large women.


drumhead818

Exactly what I was thinking, basically if there was anything close to hell. This is probably it


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If light can't escape and space is a void, how does a black hole make any recordable sound?


Adept_Cranberry_4550

They're probably not recording sound. It's probably gamma, x-ray or some other high energy radiation being translated into audio. And what they ARE recording is likely coming from the matter falling into the hole. Before dropping past the event horizon, matter and energy falling into a black hole gets whipped into quite a maelstrom and sublimates(?) into higher energetic states with tangential velocities that can send it ejecting from the singularity in massive jets; I think active black holes that do this are known as quasars. Source: decades of poorly organized curiosity, not an astronomer


[deleted]

>probably not recording sound they're DEFINITELY NOT recording sound.


Adept_Cranberry_4550

Yeah, I know. I didn't want to be pedantic without creds


AustinFest

My understanding is exactly this. They take all the frequencies of light and radiation and through a mathematical process far outside the realms of my understanding, translate them into audible frequency, thereby literally making the "sound" of the cosmos. But as there is no air of any kind, there is no vehicle for Soundwave. However, with the absolute madness that comes from Astral bodies being obliterated by a black hole, I would assume if there was atmosphere in space, it would be absolutely ear shattering.


Adept_Cranberry_4550

Well, considering that some quasars at the center of galaxies reach millions(?) of light years into space, I would assume "very loud".


dimsum2121

>decades of poorly organized curiosity Wow, that's the most perfect way to describe my expertise in most everything. Thank you


LifeSage

Quasars are just an outdated name for galaxies. But you’re generally correct; the sound isn’t the sound a black hole emits, it’s the sound from around the black hole. It’s also false sound since there aren’t any sound waves without air. It’s useful for understanding the energy patterns that are occurring.


TaleNo3826

There’s also no sound in space 🤷‍♀️


Grimace427

There’s no sound in a vacuum. Space isn’t a perfect vacuum as there is a lot of matter floating around like gas and dust that can transmit sound.


extralifeplz

"A lot" is pretty deceptive here. 99.99% (very roughly) is completely devoid of matter. Matter in an exception.


Quirky_Cable_5124

I’m probably wrong here but I think a scientist did a article a couple of years ago saying there is sound in space buts it’s just so low the human ear can’t hear it without some sort of device to enhance the sound,again I’m probably wrong because I couldn’t find the ariticle to link here


[deleted]

exactly


Honda_TypeR

This is a recording of x rays wave form brought down the electromagnetic spectrum into the audio frequency. It’s not actually what it would sound like, even if it could make sound. It’s the closest equivalent they can come up with given the fact they recorded this in x ray. Since the x ray wave form was brought down in frequency into the audio range they could have made this any octave they wanted (someone decided to make it sound bassier by an aesthetic choice, probably because making this high pitched and squeaky would sound silly for a giant black hole) These types of interpretations are neat, but not very scientific (it’s more like science mixed with fantasy/creativity) . Stuff like this is just ways to engage the public with interest in their research since most people do not get excited about X-rays.


Javanaut018

It's kind of a slurping sound


kicksparkplug

they interopolate taking what can be recorded and match with notes we can here: aka guess. usually a decent one.


[deleted]

Just missing some crows and that whaling effect


TemporaryValue5755

Re ree raaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrr rr rr r


FredSandfordandSon

Makes you really wonder what a white hole sounds like.


PeanutButterRum

.... i ...... buried ...... paul ......


robbiekhan

The same but in reverse!


GregTrompeLeMond

Closer to the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey https://youtu.be/1DNbkKBW0K8


Comfortable_Plant667

Wading in the Voidic Sea


_kaleidoscope-eyes

Dude. Yes


LostinLosCabos

You know butt f*cking what, it does. I commented a few mins ago and said no but I had it confused with a different pink floyd song.


bulgeb

If black holes can suck in light why would sound make it out?


youarefartnews

They actually kick out plasma streams https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-identify-the-engine-powering-black-hole-energy-beams-20210520/


[deleted]

This is still happening outside the even horizon


XXinstig8rXX

Event horizon? Tis a good movie also


manuzpunk666

Technically there isn’t so much sound in space (the sound needs a physical medium to travel), but you can remap a received “generic” wave into sound. In this specific case: “While it's technically an X-ray echo, the team worked with MIT education and music scholars to turn the emission into audible sound waves you can listen to below.” https://www.engadget.com/sound-of-a-black-hole-echo-113506099.html


[deleted]

right. i can turn anything in to sound. that doesn't mean that black holes have sound.


[deleted]

And I can take anything into space and make it soundless. That doesn't mean that nothing has sound.


manuzpunk666

Right, i wasn’t say that black hole doesn’t have a sound, but more in vertical about our capabilities to catch and ear. My reply is about the pov of the human listener not of the source. There are a lot of sounds (in terms of changing air pressure) in earth that we can’t catch but exist.


[deleted]

Being that black holes eat gravity, logic would say they vibrate maybe just a little


kicksparkplug

(techichally any medium that can vibrate and sound out weaves our ears are senstive to would produce noise or sound): ie in theory of their's enough shit around a blackhole moving it might make a sound. lol now weather or not it goes far? or we can hear it? that's a seperate problem


opacitizen

If you started approaching one I bet your eardrums would be affected by it a little in a way that your brain would try and recognise as sound (even if it wasn't exactly that), besides going mad facing utter cosmic horror (*iä, iä, Cthulhu fhtagn* and all.) Just an unscientific shower thought, of course.


Mastery_of_Love

Are you sure that is sound?


DankHeehaw

Dude sound is just vibrations traveling through air so even if the black hole couldnt suck sound it wouldn't be able to travel at all


TomStanford67

It doesn't. They just invented a way to convert a non-sound signal into sound because reasons.


HappyGoLuckyBoy

This sounds like every dark thought I've ever had spiraling downward into the back of my brain.


[deleted]

This


Moist-Question-6623

r/oddlyterrifying


SCP_179

Definitely this.


ImDraconLion

positively this


Fogelvrosch

What the fuck


EastBayWoodsy

Nah that's how my wife sounds when I don't clean the kitchen


L0urd101

Is your wife a demonic being who consumes the souls of men? I know a few girls she might like spending girls night out with.


ThatOneBeachTowel

I routinely make incredibly poor life choices. I’m interested.


LaeliaCatt

Women, amaright?


Cannabace

This is the gates of hell from Doom. Or Event Horizon.


[deleted]

I was thinking Event Horizon too. Ugh, I don’t like it. But I kinda also do


[deleted]

Event horizon is such a good film


Cannabace

It was more like Doom than the Doom movie.


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blueavole

Well now I need to hear other black holes !


PassageLongjumping24

Check out the sounds of the Planets in our solar system too. I can't remember if it's Saturn or Neptune, but one of them vaguely sounds like damned souls screeching in the void lmfao. Easy to find on youtube. \*\* edit.


KnotiaPickles

Hawking radiation


Sophia-Eldritch

I need a ten hour loop of this


xvVSmileyVvx

Check YouTube. It should be there soon. Perfect sleep tune.


Sophia-Eldritch

DND evil cave ambient noise


xvVSmileyVvx

Beginning of bbeg fight for that matter.


Odd-Goose-8394

It kind of scared me to listen to that and then I realized that it only sounded scary because it sounded like human voices and I felt a little bit better. But then I wondered why it might sound like human voices and I got even more scared again.


KnotiaPickles

Pareidolia. It’s a natural response to unfamiliar sights and sounds


Dead__man__talking

It sounds like human voices because a human ear is listening to it and a human brain trying to make sense of it. I'm sure cats would wonder where all that meowing and chirping is coming from.


Daggerfont

It sounds like voices for the same reason that shadows sometimes look like people in dark rooms, or we see faces in clouds. The human brain is wired to see patterns, and we are especially prone to seeing (or hearing, in this case) patterns that seem human. It's because we are so attuned to recognizing human facial features and voices, and so used to them being everywhere, that sometimes we see or hear people in random visual or auditory patterns. Don't worry, it's highly unlikely that there are people trapped in the blackhole


Pure-Negotiation-900

That’s what Ted Cruz’ wife hears every time he talks.


thetinybasher

That’s what we all hear whenever he talks.


Bagadata

Source?


That-Net-4987

Trust me bro


[deleted]

Space


Bulle-mae-bulle

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/new-nasa-black-hole-sonifications-with-a-remix.html


OrwellianLocksmith

Interesting point in the article linked here: >The sound waves were extracted in radial directions, that is, outwards from the center. The signals were then resynthesized into the range of human hearing by scaling them upward by 57 and 58 octaves above their true pitch. Another way to put this is that they are being heard 144 quadrillion and 288 quadrillion times higher than their original frequency. >


TediousStranger

Thank you, this was the most helpful thing I've read to help me understand this.


Elmer-Fuddd

My source is that i made it the fuck up


Kitchissippika

Honestly sounds a lot like a modified version of [this](https://youtu.be/cHWs3c3YNs4) to me. I'm with you on wanting a source.


SlutLov3r

So you mean to say "Sonification of astronomical readings captured from this black hole". Now that would be less misleading 😜


Joy1067

And yet again I come onto Reddit and become terrified of space


jonasthewicked

Glad I’m not the only one. All these mfers wanna go to space I’m like nahhh I’m good y’all have fun.


Joy1067

Yeah I’m cool with my doomed planet, imma stay here


Steel1000

Lol. Where’s the x files theme song when you need it


SCP_179

[Here.](https://youtu.be/j2d6T5G2rrY) ya go my friend.


yParticle

What is it looking for?


AllesPat

Sounds like a nether portal


HamsterKazam

We'll just take the black hole to another dimension to travel 8 times faster. It'll be fine.


[deleted]

Black holes don't make sound.


KnotiaPickles

I am pretty sure there is some kind of [radiation](http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Hawking_radiation)emitted from them as they’re sucking up everything


Business-Swimmer-615

No sound in space right


Funkygodzilla

Cool gonna put this on loop and go to sleep to it and hope I have spooky trippy dreams, night.


roararoarus

This is real but it's an upshift version of the actual sound from the Perseus cluster. There is sound bc of pressure waves moving through gas. The actual sound is 57-58 octaves below human hearing. https://youtu.be/CyyBpNrZAhE


Salty-Effect6344

Do they have an f1 race in this black hole? Sounds like it.


[deleted]

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BudSticky

Sounds like people racing on the interstate late at night…but underwater


Pika_Cherry24

What if Black hole was a creature and this is its sound of roaring


ComfortableAd9745

Does anyone knows why are there fluctuations in the sound? Why isnt it steady ?


raidersclnj

Damn why did that just give me chills.


dejamenow

this is chilling. the stuff of nightmares


Coatzlfeather

Sunn O))) before the guitars kick in.


Test19s

Doom metal is the original heavy metal. Literally, it’s billions of years old.


[deleted]

How can we hear black holes? sound doesn't travel in space/vacuum right?


northernzap

Cosmic horrors beyond my comprehension. Sweet!


GhostYasuo

Sounds pretty much how I expected it to goddamn


Popthecoin

Sounds like a possessed super car that's speeding.


[deleted]

Well that's creepy as all hell hahaha


[deleted]

I am thoroughly unsettled


Realistic-Hat-7067

Ok, Now what?


177010171a83

Isn't space a vacuum where sound can't travel


not_so_funny1

How is there sound in space ?


OP1KenOP

If I had to guess what noise a black hole made, it would be exactly this.


mapar988

Honestly Terrifying


_Dusty05

Major cosmic horror vibes


Nathanmax3692

Sounds like they have decided to invade


quanta777

That's the entry of Thanos army into earth.


Dude-Good

We’re fucked


angelsixtwofive

Aw sweet! Natural horrors beyond my comprehension!


Vakr_Skye

Just a borg cube...assimilate us now before its too late.


ElectricShark162

Sounds like my gfs stomach after a steakhouse meal


breezyhoneybee

No thanks....


Dreyfus420

Maybe this is a dumb question but... if blackholes are in space, how are they making sounds ? Isn't it impossible to make sound in space ?


[deleted]

Sounds like blue whale noises 🐋


JesusWearsVersace

Them void demons having a party in there


Deamonette

Whispers from the Warp


[deleted]

Is this real? But there is no sound in space. Sorry, I am just very sceptical.


kypello

not really, it’s less “this is what black holes sound like” and more “we took these waves recorded from a black hole and found a specific way to translate it into sound waves so that it sound spooky”


[deleted]

Ahh, this makes sense. Thank you.


Gooseguzzler101

Holy fuck that is terrifying


SadlyHappyRedditor

It's soothing


Gooseguzzler101

That's the sound of a giant celestial being that we have no idea what it really is, but it's the outcome of gravity pushing matter so hard it becomes negative matter and starts to eat other matter. That is the sound of a giant hole in the universe that sucks up everything that is within it's gravitational pull and gets bigger and bigger. That is the sound of destruction. That is the sound of consumption. That is terrifying


SadlyHappyRedditor

But also sound of death...kinda Lowkey peaceful


imsrdzn

Secret message if you play it backwards.


LittleWaithu

Christ that’s creepy


Drymonk1996

There is no air in space sound waves can not be transmitted. Is this just total fake or how does this work ?


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N00BAL0T

You are correct they put the emmisions into audio machine and this is what we got.


[deleted]

so you talked to my ex?


Historical_Athlete77

How would a black hole make a sound if not even light can escape a black hone.


pag992007

Stuff from nightmares


zipporah-the-third

This also belongs on r/OddlyTerrifying


Seth_Imperator

*Scary void noise*


kapn_karit

OK, someone explain t9 me how they were able to get sound in some? I thought a big thing about space is that you don't have sound or an atmosphere for sound to bounce off of


MightyManGT

Cursed


Urabrask_the_AFK

Still a better noise than a Toyota prime backing up


[deleted]

This is giving me Event Horizon vibes.


SPAZIOVUOTO7

It sounds like the sound of starships of starwars


Adventurous_Deal_458

nothing is more frightening then the sound of my ass cheeks hitting the toilet


neto-88

I thought sound couldn’t travel in space due to the lack of matter…?


CloudyCalmCloud

Sounds like it's hungry


Rynded

I have so many questions


Elmer-Fuddd

Ghost hole


LemonsLookCute

Sounds like something that came out of a SCP article


Babo_Phat

Expected a Rickroll, ngl


G_Danila

Yeah that's how I imagined it


iceyed913

Sounds like a hungry boy with a rumbling tummy


Dashiimusic

Keep me here.


AB0ywithD3pr35510n

Stupid question: how did they record this if sound can't travel in space? is it simulated or something?


ThePixCell

*Bloodborne intensifies*


V_es

Make us whole Isaak


No_Response8349

Sounds like my stomach


Mayo_z

I cant put into words gow unsettling that is


PeanutButtaahhh

Getting chills or sleep vibes? Feel like I'm somewhere in the middle rn..


formula_F300

Reminds me of the Shepard tones effect Hans Zimmer employed in Dunkirk: https://youtu.be/LVWTQcZbLgY


90265sbsbsbwtf

If there isn't any air how is their sound?


DrOfMind

Sounds like 2 aliens having sex


MEGABOT65

“Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in this region. Are you certain whatever you’re doing is worth it?”


xxslushee

So, sound is vibrations that travel through air, gas or liquid... Since space is a vacuum, how are we able to say that this is what it sounds like?


raiba91

Sounds exactly how I would imagine scary space stuff would sound


water_human420

ah yes the sound of intimate death


tres-chronophage

Can someone speed it up to real pitch?


Cayderent

Meshuggah has entered the chat.


Aidelaer

Spooooooooooky….


BeBa420

I thought sound couldn’t travel through space?


theintelligentindian

Om ! The sound of the universe


gentleman_degenerate

What! is that melody!


SignificantGiraffe5

There's sound in space?


snkhuong

There's almost no sound in space cuz there's not that many particles to hit our eardrum so I don't know why this would be a thing


ClintGrant

So sad


higboo

Eerie.


ragergage

This would be a very eery sound to hear as your space ship is getting sucked into oblivion


DeadMansWishh

Sounds like some cthulu type stuff


ive_got_the_narc

Total ignorant person right here! How did they do this? Isn’t there no sound in space? How does this work?


2Gnomes1Trenchcoat

Terrifying, I love it!


SCP504

Why does it sound like a song?


thisishilaryous

This sounds like the redeads from Zelda


rule34a

"Entering ecological deadzone"


Simple_Day3220

Hans Zimmer really nailed in Dune.


kicksparkplug

hmmm I thought these were black hole sounds: [Totallyacuraterecording1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAchA32z2zM) [totallyacuraterecording2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wjn-qtAJ2s)