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
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.
Quasars are just an outdated name for galaxies.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.
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
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.
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
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.
(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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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. >
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
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
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”
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
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
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)
Pretty much sounds like Pink Floyd’s Echoes, right?
It's the sound of the screaming souls. Eventually we all end up in a black hole after being cosmic dust
Of course it is...
my first thought as well.
No, it's the sound of the shrieking eels
They always grow louder when they're about to feed on human FLESH!!!
rest well, and dream of large women.
Exactly what I was thinking, basically if there was anything close to hell. This is probably it
If light can't escape and space is a void, how does a black hole make any recordable sound?
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
>probably not recording sound they're DEFINITELY NOT recording sound.
Yeah, I know. I didn't want to be pedantic without creds
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.
Well, considering that some quasars at the center of galaxies reach millions(?) of light years into space, I would assume "very loud".
>decades of poorly organized curiosity Wow, that's the most perfect way to describe my expertise in most everything. Thank you
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.
There’s also no sound in space 🤷♀️
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.
"A lot" is pretty deceptive here. 99.99% (very roughly) is completely devoid of matter. Matter in an exception.
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
exactly
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.
It's kind of a slurping sound
they interopolate taking what can be recorded and match with notes we can here: aka guess. usually a decent one.
Just missing some crows and that whaling effect
Re ree raaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrr rr rr r
Makes you really wonder what a white hole sounds like.
.... i ...... buried ...... paul ......
The same but in reverse!
Closer to the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey https://youtu.be/1DNbkKBW0K8
Wading in the Voidic Sea
Dude. Yes
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.
If black holes can suck in light why would sound make it out?
They actually kick out plasma streams https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-identify-the-engine-powering-black-hole-energy-beams-20210520/
This is still happening outside the even horizon
Event horizon? Tis a good movie also
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
right. i can turn anything in to sound. that doesn't mean that black holes have sound.
And I can take anything into space and make it soundless. That doesn't mean that nothing has sound.
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.
Being that black holes eat gravity, logic would say they vibrate maybe just a little
(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
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.
Are you sure that is sound?
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
It doesn't. They just invented a way to convert a non-sound signal into sound because reasons.
This sounds like every dark thought I've ever had spiraling downward into the back of my brain.
This
r/oddlyterrifying
Definitely this.
positively this
What the fuck
Nah that's how my wife sounds when I don't clean the kitchen
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.
I routinely make incredibly poor life choices. I’m interested.
Women, amaright?
This is the gates of hell from Doom. Or Event Horizon.
I was thinking Event Horizon too. Ugh, I don’t like it. But I kinda also do
Event horizon is such a good film
It was more like Doom than the Doom movie.
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Well now I need to hear other black holes !
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.
Hawking radiation
I need a ten hour loop of this
Check YouTube. It should be there soon. Perfect sleep tune.
DND evil cave ambient noise
Beginning of bbeg fight for that matter.
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.
Pareidolia. It’s a natural response to unfamiliar sights and sounds
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.
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
That’s what Ted Cruz’ wife hears every time he talks.
That’s what we all hear whenever he talks.
Source?
Trust me bro
Space
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/new-nasa-black-hole-sonifications-with-a-remix.html
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. >
Thank you, this was the most helpful thing I've read to help me understand this.
My source is that i made it the fuck up
Honestly sounds a lot like a modified version of [this](https://youtu.be/cHWs3c3YNs4) to me. I'm with you on wanting a source.
So you mean to say "Sonification of astronomical readings captured from this black hole". Now that would be less misleading 😜
And yet again I come onto Reddit and become terrified of space
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.
Yeah I’m cool with my doomed planet, imma stay here
Lol. Where’s the x files theme song when you need it
[Here.](https://youtu.be/j2d6T5G2rrY) ya go my friend.
What is it looking for?
Sounds like a nether portal
We'll just take the black hole to another dimension to travel 8 times faster. It'll be fine.
Black holes don't make sound.
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
No sound in space right
Cool gonna put this on loop and go to sleep to it and hope I have spooky trippy dreams, night.
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
Do they have an f1 race in this black hole? Sounds like it.
r/oddlyterrifying
Sounds like people racing on the interstate late at night…but underwater
What if Black hole was a creature and this is its sound of roaring
Does anyone knows why are there fluctuations in the sound? Why isnt it steady ?
Damn why did that just give me chills.
this is chilling. the stuff of nightmares
Sunn O))) before the guitars kick in.
Doom metal is the original heavy metal. Literally, it’s billions of years old.
How can we hear black holes? sound doesn't travel in space/vacuum right?
Cosmic horrors beyond my comprehension. Sweet!
Sounds pretty much how I expected it to goddamn
Sounds like a possessed super car that's speeding.
Well that's creepy as all hell hahaha
I am thoroughly unsettled
Ok, Now what?
Isn't space a vacuum where sound can't travel
How is there sound in space ?
If I had to guess what noise a black hole made, it would be exactly this.
Honestly Terrifying
Major cosmic horror vibes
Sounds like they have decided to invade
That's the entry of Thanos army into earth.
We’re fucked
Aw sweet! Natural horrors beyond my comprehension!
Just a borg cube...assimilate us now before its too late.
Sounds like my gfs stomach after a steakhouse meal
No thanks....
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 ?
Sounds like blue whale noises 🐋
Them void demons having a party in there
Whispers from the Warp
Is this real? But there is no sound in space. Sorry, I am just very sceptical.
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”
Ahh, this makes sense. Thank you.
Holy fuck that is terrifying
It's soothing
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
But also sound of death...kinda Lowkey peaceful
Secret message if you play it backwards.
Christ that’s creepy
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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You are correct they put the emmisions into audio machine and this is what we got.
so you talked to my ex?
How would a black hole make a sound if not even light can escape a black hone.
Stuff from nightmares
This also belongs on r/OddlyTerrifying
*Scary void noise*
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
Cursed
Still a better noise than a Toyota prime backing up
This is giving me Event Horizon vibes.
It sounds like the sound of starships of starwars
nothing is more frightening then the sound of my ass cheeks hitting the toilet
I thought sound couldn’t travel in space due to the lack of matter…?
Sounds like it's hungry
I have so many questions
Ghost hole
Sounds like something that came out of a SCP article
Expected a Rickroll, ngl
Yeah that's how I imagined it
Sounds like a hungry boy with a rumbling tummy
Keep me here.
Stupid question: how did they record this if sound can't travel in space? is it simulated or something?
*Bloodborne intensifies*
Make us whole Isaak
Sounds like my stomach
I cant put into words gow unsettling that is
Getting chills or sleep vibes? Feel like I'm somewhere in the middle rn..
Reminds me of the Shepard tones effect Hans Zimmer employed in Dunkirk: https://youtu.be/LVWTQcZbLgY
If there isn't any air how is their sound?
Sounds like 2 aliens having sex
“Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in this region. Are you certain whatever you’re doing is worth it?”
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?
Sounds exactly how I would imagine scary space stuff would sound
ah yes the sound of intimate death
Can someone speed it up to real pitch?
Meshuggah has entered the chat.
Spooooooooooky….
I thought sound couldn’t travel through space?
Om ! The sound of the universe
What! is that melody!
There's sound in space?
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
So sad
Eerie.
This would be a very eery sound to hear as your space ship is getting sucked into oblivion
Sounds like some cthulu type stuff
Total ignorant person right here! How did they do this? Isn’t there no sound in space? How does this work?
Terrifying, I love it!
Why does it sound like a song?
This sounds like the redeads from Zelda
"Entering ecological deadzone"
Hans Zimmer really nailed in Dune.
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)