Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. Did you know that the deepest note in the universe — at least, the part of the universe that can be ...

So famous that it has been sampled by Dre and parodied on The Simpsons, the THX Deep Note is one of the most recognizable pieces of computer-generated music in the world. Although it contains only ...

The deep cosmic note, deeper than anything the ... A quick conversion into musical notes with the aid of a piano found the Perseus black hole was singing in B flat. Andrew Fabian, of the Institute ...

The deepest musical note ever generated in space – a B flat one million billion times deeper than can be heard by humans – has been recorded at a black hole and it’s estimated that it has ...

The father of the THX Deep Note was James A. Moorer, an employee of Lucasfilm’s Computer Division, a pioneering skunkworks that eventually sprouted not just THX but Pixar as well. THX was ...

There are some iconic movie title cards out there, but perhaps none as monumental as that of THX, the Lucasfilm subsidiary whose logo accompanies that huge swelling sound you’ve definitely heard ...