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Space is not truly silent — it has plasma waves that NASA has converted to sound

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While sound waves cannot travel through the vacuum of space (there is no medium for the vibration), space contains plasma — ionised gas — which carries electromagnetic waves at frequencies proportional to pressure variations. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory detected pressure waves in the gas of the Perseus galaxy cluster and scaled their frequency up by 57 octaves. The result is a haunting, droning hum. Space does 'sound' — just not in a register humans can hear unaided.

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Space is filled with electromagnetic oscillations that, when translated, create eerie sound — the universe has been making music we could not hear until we built the instruments to detect it.

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Space isn't truly silent. NASA converted plasma waves from black holes into sound — and it's deeply unsettling.