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Holding the Universe in your hands, with Dr Kimberly Arcand

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Sonification Is a New Way to Transform Data Into Sound

A story where the sound of black hole was published and went viral online so you can actually hear it. I had a conversation with another scientist who seemed a bit cynical about it he sort of scoffed at the idea that we just you know heard a black hole. Yeah, there are definitely ways that it could be confusing because if someone's writing a headline and they're not as used to carrying science stories they might have put the headline this is a direct translation of a black hole sound or this is what a black hole sounds like exactly or a black hole,. but in this case I think it was pretty accurate representation of the data. So far out of human hearing way too low for humans to

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