Why is a pulse up best seen in X-ray and radio wave seems contrary? Well, I mean, you know, pulse bars are really fascinating objects because they're like the leftover cores of stars that have passed on. When you have a place like a pulse are, which is extremely hot, anytime you have very high temperatures in the universe, things happen that give you high energy photons. But also a pulse are has a magnetic field and a magnetic field when it interacts with some of the particles in its vicinity will generate radio waves. So no part of the universe is out of your perfect.
What does space sound like? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Matt Kirshen explore space sonification projects and Chandra x-ray data with astronomy visualization expert Kimberly Arcand. Hear what the supermassive black hole at the center of The Milky Way sounds like…
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