
BLACK NOISE also known as SILENCE. Noise with a 1/fβ spectrum, where β > 2 (Manfred Schroeder, “Fractals, chaos, power laws”). Used in modeling various environmental processes. Is said to be a characteristic of “natural and unnatural catastrophes like floods, droughts, bear markets, and various outrageous outages, such as those of electrical power.” Further, “because of their black spectra, such disasters often come in clusters.” Image generated in PROCESSING.