New fear of space's hellish screaming unlocked...
If you're like us, you were today years old when you found out space has a sound.
It's a misconception apparently, born out of the fact that space is mostly vacuum, giving sound waves no opportunity to travel.
But there seems to be some exceptions, with NASA having identified one galaxy cluster with so much gas that it emits sound.
The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole! pic.twitter.com/RobcZs7F9e
— NASA Exoplanets (@NASAExoplanets) August 21, 2022
It's as creepy as you'd imagine and Twitter isn't quite sure how to react.
LOLing at how a black hole sounds like a billion souls being tortured in Hell https://t.co/OBP7NVmFKj
— The Blindboy Podcast (@Rubberbandits) August 22, 2022
i love when NASA just tweets something like “Check this out — space sounds like the wailing of billions of souls trapped forever in Hell! They are calling for your blood! Wow!” https://t.co/VSv3Meql8D
— libby watson (@libbycwatson) August 22, 2022
— mkay? (@manuka1811) August 21, 2022
The science of how the sound was measured are, quite frankly, beyond us - but NASA says:
"In this sonification of Perseus, the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time. The sound waves were extracted outward from the center."
Hope this helps.
