{"id":213317,"date":"2025-05-09T01:40:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?p=861160"},"modified":"2025-05-09T01:40:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:40:27","slug":"nasa-telescopes-tune-into-a-black-hole-prelude-fugue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=213317","title":{"rendered":"NASA Telescopes Tune Into a Black Hole Prelude, Fugue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The first sonification features WR124, an extremely bright, massive star. Here, the star is shown in a short-lived phase preceding the possible creation of a black hole. <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

NASA released three new pieces of cosmic sound Thursday that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our universe: black holes. These scientific productions are sonifications \u2014 or translations into sound \u2014 of data collected by NASA telescopes in space including the Chandra X-ray Observatory<\/a>, James Webb Space Telescope<\/a>, and Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This trio of sonifications represents different aspects of black holes and black hole evolution. WR124 is an extremely bright, short-lived massive star known as a Wolf-Rayet that may collapse into a black hole in the future. SS 433 is a binary, or double system, containing a star like our Sun in orbit with either a neutron star or a black hole. The galaxy Centaurus A has an enormous black hole in its center that is sending a booming jet across the entire length of the galaxy. Data from Chandra and other telescopes were translated through a process called \u201csonification\u201d into sounds and notes.<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This new trio of sonifications represents different aspects of black holes. Black holes are neither static nor monolithic. They evolve over time, and are found in a range of sizes and environments.<\/p>\n

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