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Online game makes anyone a 'black hole hunter'
Blog:   New Scientist Space Blog     Posted:   Thursday 03rd of July 2008 4:50 PM

Ever had a burning desire to hunt for black holes? See how well you score in this black hole hunter game, developed by researchers at Cardiff University, UK, as part of the 2008 Royal Society Summer Exhibition in London.

In the game, you listen to sound files of simulated waveforms that detectors on Earth could record when sensing gravitational waves from colliding black holes and neutron stars with various masses. The pitch of the sound rises quickly as the bodies spiral together and merge.

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