'It was essentially a B-flat about 57 octaves below middle C,' said NASA scientist Kimberly Arcand. 'So we've taken that sound that the universe was singing and then just brought it back up into the range of human hearing.'
of the sound earlier this month using electromagnetic data picked from the Perseus Galaxy Cluster, some 240 million light-years away.Chandra X-Ray Observatory
“I started out the first 10 years of my career really paying attention to only the visual, and just realized that I had done a complete disservice to people who were either not visual learners or for people who are blind or low-vision,” NASA visual scientist Kimberly Arcand told NPR in an interview with Weekend Edition.
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