Post #375

In this new sonification of the black hole in galaxy M87, three different sets of observations are represented as sound. Hubble’s visible light image is in the middle, with X-rays from nasa chandra xray on top and radio waves from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array on the bottom. The bright region on the left is where M87’s black hole is found, and the streak coming out of it is a jet produced by material falling onto the black hole. Each wavelength of light is represented with a different range of audible tones. Radio waves are mapped to the lowest tones, Hubble’s data to medium tones, and X-rays detected by Chandra to the highest tones.