We're too far away from any of these objects, even if they were making sounds. There are sound waves that are occurring in things like galaxy clusters where there is all this super hot gas around black holes. So we do have an example where we've taken a sound wave and re-sonified it up to something we can hear. But out there in outer space, there are places where there are sound waves occurring.
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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