NASA Video Reveals Black Hole 'Sound' Via Galaxy Cluster

NASA has released "sound" of a supermassive black hole, situated 250 million light-years away from Earth.

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The 34-second clip has been viewed 12.8 million times on Twitter, receiving more than 334,000 likes.

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It was posted by NASA Exoplanets, part of the space agency which specializes...

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...in the hunt for "planets and life beyond our solar system.

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The recording is of sound waves coming out of a black hole in the Perseus cluster of galaxies.

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This collection of galaxies, 11 million light-years wide, is packed with gas.

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The sound has been converted by NASA scientists so that it can be heard by Human ear.

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Scientists first detected acoustic waves coming from gas surrounding...

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...the Perseus galaxy cluster black hole in 2003.

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