NASA has released an audio recording of the sounds of a supermassive black hole, which is located at a distance of 250 million light-years from Earth. The object is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, the acoustic waves that emanate from it were moved up 57 and 58 octaves so that the human ear could catch them, according to Science alert.

As the publication emphasizes, the fact that we do not hear the sounds of space does not mean that they do not exist.. In 2003, astronomers discovered something truly amazing: acoustic waves propagating through the copious volumes of gas surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of the Perseus Cluster.. She's now famous for her creepy sounds..

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But we wouldn't be able to hear them if we were close to a black hole.. Among the sounds and the lowest note ever recorded by scientists, it is far below the limit that the human ear can catch..

Sound processing carried out by NASA specialists raised the audio recording by several octaves, and also added notes recorded in a black hole.. Because of this, we can hear it.

The lowest note, recorded back in 2003, is B flat, just over 57 octaves below middle C.; its frequency is 10 million years. The lowest note a human can hear is one twentieth of a second..

The resulting sounds are not just a response to the curiosity of scientists. The rarefied gas and plasma that drifts between galaxies in clusters is much denser and hotter than the intergalactic medium.. Sound waves that propagate through the medium inside the clusters are one of the mechanisms for heating this medium, since they transfer energy through the plasma.

Because temperature controls the rate of star formation, sound waves can play a critical role in the evolution of galaxy clusters over long periods of time..

This allows scientists to find sound waves.. Since the intracluster medium is very hot, it glows brightly in X-rays..