As as bass player, I'm into those low, low loooooowww notes; the ones that make your chest shake, and your bowels do the rhumba.
So imagine my delight today when NASA informed me that their Chandra X-ray Observatory detected, for the first time, a deep, deep tone rumbling from a supermassive black hole.
"In musical terms, the pitch of the sound generated by the black hole translates into the note of B flat," NASA says. "But, a human would have no chance of hearing this cosmic performance because the note is 57 octaves lower than middle-C.
"For comparison, a typical piano contains only about seven octaves. At a frequency over a million billion times (below) the limits of human hearing, this is the deepest note ever detected from an object in the Universe."
As as bass player, I'm into those low, low loooooowww notes; the ones that make your chest shake, and your bowels do the rhumba.
So imagine my delight today when NASA informed me that their Chandra X-ray Observatory detected, for the first time, a deep, deep tone rumbling from a supermassive black hole.
"In musical terms, the pitch of the sound generated by the black hole translates into the note of B flat," NASA says. "But, a human would have no chance of hearing this cosmic performance because the note is 57 octaves lower than middle-C.
"For comparison, a typical piano contains only about seven octaves. At a frequency over a million billion times (below) the limits of human hearing, this is the deepest note ever detected from an object in the Universe."