Agent of Chaos

NASA Data Sonification: Black Hole Remix

In this sonification of Perseus. the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time. The sound waves were extracted outward from the center. (source)

No, thank you. I did not need to hear the souls of a universe calling to me from the afterlife.

Someone needs to make a space thriller/horror/whatever with this mixed into the music

why does it sound exactly like what it feels like a black hole should sound like

I want to thank the Moon for being thematically convergent with the specific Doctor Who episode we were watching tonight.

I also want to thank the team that took the first photo of a black hole, for publishing their research just on time for another thematically appropriate Doctor Who episode.

Katie Bouman developed the algorithm that led to the imaging method three years ago as a 26 year-old graduate student! 

women in STEM deserve to have their names heard! shout them from the roof! src

and here’s her TED talk!

YEAH! I’m so proud!

She’s beautiful

Y’all calling me a nerd for something that I watched a few of my profs and coworkers tear up over so let me wax poetic for a minute.

This is the densest thing in the known universe. This object doesn’t abide by our laws of nature. Black holes will be around long after every star has died and every planet is a cold husk. This black hole sees all of time around it, all at the same time. You’re looking into infinity and vast nothingness at the same time. This little blurry picture is our first direct look at the most powerful object in the universe. This picture proves Einstein and Hawking we’re right. This picture is the culmination of 100 years of hard work and an array of telescopes crisscrossing our entire planet. This is the first day of a new branch of astrophysics. Fuck y’all calling me a nerd at least I can appreciate the work and passion that went into this very image

Remember those blurry little photos we had of Pluto, and how the world gasped at its beauty when we got those first high res photos, and wonder what marvelous things we’ll be seeing when someday we get those high res photos of a black hole.

:O

✦ tag yourself: space edition ✦

moonlight: sleep deprived af, genius ideas at 2:00 am, constantly underestimated, tangled earbuds, pretends like they don’t care but actually cares a lot, unscented candles

comet: will fight you for their friends, perfect eyeliner, doesn’t get angry but instead just fucking glares at you until you crumble, loves thunderstorms, cat person

stars: has no idea what they’re doing 167% of the time, artsy, likes halsey, string lights everywhere, loves fuzzy socks and blankets, probably wears space buns

alien: secretly is super good at makeup but doesn’t wear it often, lots of coffee, probably has a pet fish, reads young adult fantasy novels, closet conspiracy theorist, arms and papers always covered in doodles

black hole: 97% of their wardrobe is hoodies, professional procrastinator, can write, probably owns essential oils, eats ramen at 1:00 am, only writes in pen, actually really cool but doesn’t know it

spacedust: bath bombs, a+ insta feed, long flowy skirts and tops, city person, pretends to have their shit together, secretly loves kermit memes, probably dyed their hair at one point