Quasars
The cosmic entities that fuel quasars.
What are supermassive black holes?
The size of a black hole.
What is infinitely small?
This number is about the number of minutes that it takes light from the Sun to reach Earth.
What is 8 [minutes]?
The number of contestants in a standard Jeopardy game.
What is three [contestants]?
This two syllable word is the first name of Sabrina's little sister.
What is Astrid?
A quasar is also known as this disk.
What is an accretion disk?
The property that causes black holes to suck in matter (and light).
What is gravity?
This famous astronomer, who proved that the universe was expanding, had a telescope named after him.
Who was Edwin Hubble?
The host before Ken Jennings. He passed away in 2020.
Who was Alex Trebek?
One of Shaan's stuffies, affectionately named Mochi, is this species of animal, which is his favorite.
What is a capybara?
The color that is more common for quasars than red.
What is blue?
This process that sounds a lot more like dinner is really the extreme vertical stretching and horizontal compression of objects into long, thin shapes, caused by massive gravitational force.
What is spaghettification?
A single day on Venus lasts longer than this measure of time on Venus.
What is a year (a full orbit around the Sun)?
This man has been the announcer in the beginning of Jeopardy, introducing the contestants, since 1984.
Who is Johnny Gilbert?
This specific color of the rainbow is Sanjhi's favorite.
What is lavender?
The stage of matter that makes up quasars.
What is plasma?
The reason quasars aren't sucked into the black hole powering them immediately.
What is the rapid momentum?
First discovered in 1967, this object is a neutron star that spins so fast it was once mistaken for an alien signal.
What are pulsars?
When contestants in Jeopardy buzz in too early, while the clue is still being read, their buzzer is locked for this amount of time.
What is a quarter of a second?
The spelling of Sabrina's middle name.
What is X-U?
The two types of quasars where there are, or appear to be, multiple.
What are lensed multiples and physical multiples?
The "boundary" of a black hole, inside which light cannot escape.
What is the event horizon?
This type of light, often associated with sunbeds, is emitted in vast quantities from the accretion disks of quasars.
What is ultraviolet light?
On March 30th, this year, the first Jeopardy episode aired, hosted by Art Fleming.
What is 1964?
Our lunch table's chosen name (the acronym, not the full thing).
What is SASS?