Archive for October 2008

Birth of Tragedy

written by Mack Dreyfuss, on Oct 5, 2008 11:18:00 AM.

In 2003, scientists from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, England, were studying a supermassive black hole located 250 million light years from earth. They discovered that it was producing sound waves. These sound waves translate into B-flat, 57 octaves below middle C on the common household piano. This pitch, inaudible to the human ear, is the sound of the slaughter of light.

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