How to hear black holes with X-rays

Опубликовано: 19 Ноябрь 2024
на канале: Quanta Magazine
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Astrophysicist Erin Kara explores black holes by mapping echos of X-ray light given off by their accretion disks. To better understand what happens at the event horizon, she turned light echoes into simulated sound in order to 'hear' how they work at the most fundamental levels.

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Black hole footage courtesy of NASA and European Southern Observatory.

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