Space has a voice after all.
The Exoplanets NASA team shared booming content across social media on Sunday that corrects a long-standing misconception: There is no sound in space.
“The misconception,” tweeted @NASAExoplanets, “that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we’ve picked up actual sound.”
The organization, a wing of NASA responsible for seeking other planets and life beyond this solar system, said the noise was amplified and mixed with other data, “to hear a black hole.” You can hear the (chilling?) result below.
The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we’ve picked up actual sound. Here it’s amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole! pic.twitter.com/RobcZs7F9e
— NASA Exoplanets (@NASAExoplanets) August 21, 2022
The tweet garnered more than 332,000 likes as of this writing, and the clip has been played at least 10.4 million times. One publication described the noise as “creepy.” Another said “haunting.” “Horrifying” and “demonic” were other adjectives used.
One reporter tweeted it “sounds like the wailing of billions of souls trapped forever in Hell! They are calling for your blood!”
And then there’s the Rick Astley “Never Gonna Give You Up” version.
The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we’ve picked up actual sound. Here it’s amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole! pic.twitter.com/ZNgJwmXwze
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