Space · Built from a recipe
Black Hole
D5 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 558.1 Hz.
A black hole is a place where gravity is so strong that nothing that crosses its edge, the event horizon, can get out again, not even light.
- Shelf
- Space
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC0
Its note
Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 558.1 Hz, 88 cents flat of D5, the nearest tine on the comb. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.
- 1558 Hz
- 2859 Hz
- 3913 Hz
- 41171 Hz
- 51174 Hz
- 61286 Hz
- 71356 Hz
- 81363 Hz
- 91448 Hz
- 101468 Hz
- 111572 Hz
- 121651 Hz
- 131707 Hz
- 141733 Hz
- 151796 Hz
- 161817 Hz
How to play
Tap it to feed it a star.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feed it a star | Tap | ||
| Feed | Button |
About it
A black hole is a place where gravity is so strong that nothing that crosses its edge, the event horizon, can get out again, not even light. Gas that falls toward it swirls into a flat disk and gets hot enough to glow.
Tap it to feed it a star: the star spirals in faster and faster, is stretched into a streak and plunges in, and the disk flares. In 2019 astronomers showed the first picture of a black hole's shadow, at the heart of the galaxy M87, made with radio telescopes spread across the Earth.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 56,280 at Low, and up to 890,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Deep Boom (supernova-boom.mp3) | Za-Games | CC0 1.0 |
