NASA has released audio which represents sound waves coming from a black hole at the centre of the Perseus galaxy cluster.
Galaxy clusters often release large amounts of gas, providing a medium through which sound waves can travel.
The original noise is too low for the human ear to detect because it is 57 octaves below middle C, according to NASA.
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