Near-Earth Object

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Best Newspaper Correction in the Universe

From the New York Times on the declining birthrate of stars:

An earlier version of this article misstated the sound made by a black hole in the galaxy NGC 1275. It is that of a B flat 57 octaves below middle C, not 27.

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  1. rq Avatar
    rq

    What’s a few octaves among the stars?

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  2. JohnnieCanuck Avatar
    JohnnieCanuck

    That works out to a period of 10 million years, by my calculation. It must have been playing that note for a while now.
    Hope there’s at least some vibrato or something to make the concert more interesting to those of us with short attention spans.

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