To most Americans, the hammered dulcimer is a new and unfamiliar instrument. Even people who know much about American music often confuse the hammered dulcimer with the three- or four-stringed ...

A couple thought they could hear an animal in the walls of their house. It took them a while to realize that there was another source for the noise.

"Dulcimers were very popular in Ireland so a lot of Irish tunes sound great on them. I think dulcimers are very romantic sounding too." Nonsuch Dulcimer Club, an organisation for enthusiasts which ...

There was some sort of stage malfunction during one of Olivia Rodrigo’s Melbourne shows earlier this month. Between songs, ...

dulcimer and zither. My qanun consists of a trapezoid-shaped hollow sound box made of walnut wood, and 78 strings (26 sets of 3). The holes in the sound box are finely decorated with carved ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists didn't just prove the existence of gravitational waves. They recorded them. Produced by Matthew Stuart. Video courtesy National Science Foundation Follow ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster's black hole and M87's jet have been turned into sound by SYSTEM Sounds. The Chandra team explains how it was done. Hurricane ...

Black hole mergers are beautiful — and some of the most violent events in the cosmos. Here's how the process unfolds. The story begins with two black holes orbiting far from each other in long ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the earliest supermassive black hole-driven quasar wind ever seen, pushing away matter at 6,000 times the speed of sound and killing its host galaxy.

Influence of a Black Hole's Spin: First Evidence of Precession in Ultraluminous Accretion Disks Oct. 7, 2024 — Researchers conducted innovative simulations of spinning black holes grounded in ...