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Black hole sound: NASA makes Perseus singularity audible to humans

NASA has turned pressure waves emanating from a into notes audible to humans.  The sound waves were extracted along the radius of the galaxy, outwards from its centre, and were transformed into the range of human hearing by scaling them upward by 57 and 58 octaves above their true pitch.

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