NASA audio of a black hole has gone viral. Here’s how they created it, and what else we can ‘hear’ in space

This week NASA shared some audio that allows us to “hear a black hole”.

The terrifyingly low drone soon went viral on social media, as people felt the weight of the sound and pondered their own insignificance amid the vastness of space.

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Sounds a bit like a dying cyberman.

Bubblecar said:

Sounds a bit like a dying cyberman.

I wondered where they ended up.

Soundwaves travel from the centre outwards. They should have used a large circle shrinking towards the source, instead of a rotating “radar” type line.

In space no-one can hear you scream?

There are lots of ways to simulate the sound from a black hole, different ways will give radically different sounds, depending on what they are actually simulating.