<ul><li>NASA has created sonifications of black holes, turning images into sounds to convey data from telescopes like James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory.</li><li>The sonifications depict different stages in the life of a black hole, such as WR 124, a Wolf-Rayet star that could become a black hole as it sheds layers of gas into space.</li><li>Another sonification is of SS 433, a binary system with a star and a heavier companion, possibly a black hole or a neutron star, showcasing changes in X-rays detectable from Earth.</li><li>The third sonification features Centaurus A galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its core that emits a jet, represented in the sonification through X-ray data as wind chime sounds.</li></ul>

Listen to the sounds of a black hole with these NASA sonifications

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