Tuesday, September 16, 2003

The Sounds of Silence
Astronomers at the Institute for Astronomy in Cambridge have heard the music of the universe. That music, they say, sounds like B flat, a B flat 57 octaves lower than middle C and unlikely to ever be useful in a rendition Journey's "Faithfully." The big, low note is rolling out of a super massive black hole 250 million light years from here.