Channeling Frank :)

05-15-2026

Seems black hole mergers and violin strings have a lot in common because both produce waves and harmonic overtones, thus proving the Principle of least Action applies. Additionally, scale invariance also applies as it matters not the size of the event in question, it's the process in question and waves are analog. :)

The Wiener process is scale-invariant

Black holes ring like bells - and scientists just mapped the vibrations

After two black holes collide, the resulting object vibrates as it settles down. Those vibrations carry information about nearly everything the new black hole is.

It gets better ...

Catching hidden harmonics

A team at the University of Cambridge has built a tool that draws those quieter notes out cleanly. Richard Dyer, an astronomer at Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy, led the work with co-author Dr. Christopher Moore.

The vibrations they wanted to map are called quasinormal modes. Theory holds that each one is set by the black hole’s mass and spin, making those frequencies a fingerprint.

Read more than one mode cleanly, and you can check whether those frequencies relate to each other the way Einstein’s equations actually predict.

Click here for the paper. 

Frank Zappa would agree. :)