Swinburne University astrophysicist Dr Sara Webb says the audio from a black hole was “very spooky”, but it’s not surprising as black holes do a lot to the environment around them.
NASA has released audio from a black hole using a process known as sonification, which re-synthesizes sound waves into the range of human hearing.
“So what we’re hearing is these pressure waves radiating from this spinning black hole and hitting all this hot dust and gas,” Dr Webb told Sky News Australia.
“The sonification process is amazing because it means we can take data that’s really just numbers on a computer and transfer it into something nicer because we’re trying to understand it because if it was just numbers it wouldn’t be as good. that” .