This is the inner like 400 light years around Sagittarius A star, our supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. There's all kinds of exploding stars, large stars, lots of gas and dust, really cool stuff. And it's very rich, but very dense. So there could be some sound waves that we're capturing here, although this is a supermassive black Hole.
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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