OT: Black Hole Bass Note

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:18:06 +0200


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Sheeeshhhh... Somebody just HAD to THINK a bit on this one .... spoils
all the fun :):)

Cheers Tom
RicB

Tvak@aol.com wrote:

>
> In a message dated 9/9/03 5:46:52 PM, john@musselwhite.com writes:
>
>
>
>> NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory detected sound waves,
>> for the first time, from a super-massive black hole.
>
> I'm confused.  Sound is created by a disturbance in the AIR which
> emanates from the source and is detected by our ears, or a microphone,
> etc.  Since there is NO AIR in space, how does this 'sound wave' get
> to earth, and thus be detected by NASA?
>
> Tom Sivak

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