Cosmic Echoes

Black holes · 2021

Chandra Deep Field South

The deepest X-ray image ever made

Chandra Deep Field South
Distance
Up to 12.5 billion light-years
Telescopes
Chandra

More than seven million seconds of staring at one patch of sky. Almost every colored dot is a black hole or a distant galaxy, not a nearby star.

What you’re hearing

The bar rises from the bottom of the image to the top. Color becomes pitch; brightness becomes volume. You are hearing black holes across cosmic time.

Layers

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NASA source

NASA/CXC/SAO/K. Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

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