Haunting audio from a black hole allows humans to hear the sounds of space 240 million light-years away - CBS News

The audio, released on May 4, is that of a black hole from the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster, a massive space structure that's 11 million light-years across and located about 240 million light-years away from Earth.

Astronomers created the audible sound by recording the pressure waves that the black hole sent through the cluster's hot gas.

While this particular sound of space is new, NASA has associated the Perseus galaxy cluster with sound since 2003

Along with releasing the sounds of Perseus, NASA scientists have also released a sonification of another famous black hole located in Messier 87, or M87. 

The visualization of the sound that NASA released is just as spectacular, as it contains scans of the black hole taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, optical light from Hubble Space Telescope and radio waves from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile

The audio files and visualizations were released during NASA's Black Hole Week from May 2 to 6