In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have detected the “sound” of a black hole being kicked through space, captured through the analysis of gravitational waves from the 2019 event GW190412. This ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster's black hole and M87's jet have been turned into sound by SYSTEM Sounds. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A.

WR 124, a rare type of Wolf-Rayet star. X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: (Herschel) ESA/NASA/Caltech, (Spitzer) NASA/JPL/Caltech, (WISE) NASA/JPL/Caltech; Infrared ...

Data sonification from NASA missions provides a new method to enjoy an arrangement of cosmic objects. These data sonifications translate information collected by various NASA missions — such as the ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

A decade ago, scientists first detected ripples in the fabric of space-time, called gravitational waves, from the collision of two black holes. Now, thanks to improved technology and a bit of luck, a ...

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2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Just Two Numbers Is All You Need Black holes sound wildly complicated. After all, there are all sorts of bizarre things going on: intense gravity, the warping of the fabric of space, the distortion of ...