Cool fact of the day
Black Hole Strikes Deepest Musical Note Ever Heard
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 01:50 pm ET
09 September 2003
Astronomers have detected the deepest note ever generated in the cosmos, a B-flat flying through space like a ripple on an invisible pond. No human will actually hear the note, because it is 57 octaves below the keys in the middle of a piano.
The detection was made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and announced at a press conference today.
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Well, that's just neat.