Friday, August 12, 2005

The Big Note Theory

I just learned (though the news is a couple of years old) that astronomers have found a black hole that emits sound, specifically a B-flat 53 octaves below middle C on the piano. By my calculations, that would be one beat about every 4,153,460 years. The biggest, deepest tuba in the known universe is pitched in B-flat, like any old band horn!


Click here for the NASA story

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