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Space is not silent everywhere

There is a real sound in the Perseus galaxy cluster - 57 octaves below middle C.

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Sound needs a medium, and interstellar space is too sparse. But galaxy clusters contain gas dense enough to carry pressure waves. Ripples detected in the hot gas of the Perseus cluster correspond to a note far below human hearing; NASA has since scaled the data upward to make it audible.

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