Science News | Listen to the heart of the Milky Way | Science News @ScienceNewsMag | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 13 hours ago.
This sonification is a translation into sound of the Event Horizon Telescope’s image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. The sonification sweeps clockwise around the black hole image. Material closer to the black hole orbits faster than material farther away. Here, the faster-moving material is heard at higher frequencies. Very low tones represent material outside the black hole’s main ring. Louder volume indicates brighter spots in the image.

Credit: Sonification: K. Arcand/CXC/SAO/NASA, M. Russo and A. Santaguida/SYSTEM Sounds;
Image: Radio: EHT Collaboration; X-ray: CXC/SAO/NASA; Infrared: HST, STScI, NASA

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