The Sound Of The Moment Black Holes Swallow The Stars [Video]

While the infinitely large space is still largely unknown in all its darkness, a new study has been made about black holes, one of the biggest mysteries of space. A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has succeeded in converting black holes into sound when they are fed by the stars in their orbit.

Black holes emit bursts of X-rays when they swallow dust or gas around a star. Also known as the ‘black hole echo’, the X-ray emanating during these moments, the only time the black hole is active enough to be observed, was converted into audible sound waves by the team. The resulting sound was as follows:

Those moments when black holes are fed by the star:

Scientists, NASA for their work He made use of the ‘Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer’ vehicle, which was placed on the International Space Station by . The data obtained by this tool, which acts as an X-ray telescope, was analyzed with the algorithm developed by the team, and 26 systems, known as X-ray binaries, consisting of a normal star and a dying star, were determined.

The stars in the 26 systems in question could sometimes be food for black holes. Of these 26 systems, only 10 echoes were observable, while 8 of them had never been observed before. Analyzing the observed echoes revealed important information about these moments, as well as the sound when a black hole is fed.

The team observed that black holes first go into a ‘hard’ state during feeding, where they form a corona (corona) of high-energy photons and eject high-energy particles at near-light speeds. While it was reported that this situation lasted for a few weeks, it was stated that with the disappearance of the corona and particles, the black hole went into a ‘soft’ state and entered a low-energy state.