By Peter Lloyd for MailOnline
Published: 12:40 BST, 20 May 2019 | Updated: 18:57 BST, 20 May 2019
49 shares
106
View
comments
American scientists have artificially created the loudest-possible underwater sound.
It was recorded at 270 decibels - the equivalent of two jet engines taking off and created by effectively tasering micro-jets of water with a powerful x-ray laser.
This caused them to vaporise and form 'shockwave trains' that alternated between high and low pressures, which eventually produced a sonic boom.
Scroll down for video
After blasting tiny jets of water with an X-ray laser, researchers watched left- and right-moving trains of shockwaves travel away from microbubble filled regions (pictured)
Stanford's Department of Energy worked with researchers from Rutgers University to produce the record-breaking result.
The result was so loud that it reached the brink of what's scientifically possible under water, according to the team responsible.
'It is just below the threshold where [the sound] would boil the water in a single wave oscillation,' Dr Claudiu Stan, one of the study's
