Paradox
The paradox where one twin ages slower due to near-light-speed space travel compared to the twin on Earth.
What is the Twin Paradox?
The boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape.
What is the Event Horizon?
The earth is located in this galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
In astronomy, this is the imaginary point in the sky hat is directly above an observer on Earth
What is the Zenith?
The following lyrics are from this Disney movie: "You're a spineless, pale, pathetic lot
And you haven't got a clue
Somehow I'll make a man out of you"
What is Mulan (1998)?
The contradiction between the likelihood of extraterrestrial life and the absence of evidence for it.
What is the Fermi Paradox?
The theoretical point at the center of a black hole where density becomes infinite and the laws of physics break down.
What is Singularity?
Galaxies are primarily classified into three main shapes: spiral, elliptical, and this.
What is Irregular?
The imaginary sphere around us on which the stars appear to reside.
What is the Celestial Sphere?
The day when the Earth's axis is neither tilted toward nor away from the sun resulting in nearly equal amounts of daylight and darkness.
What is the Equinox?
The paradox questioning the consequences of a time traveller going back in time and assassinated their grandfather in his childhood, which may result in a situation where the time traveller's parent were not born at all.
What is Schwartzchild Radius?
The name of the galaxy that is on a collision course with the Milky Way and will merge with it in about 4.5 billion years.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
Stars that appear to never set because they are close to the celestial poles and remain above the horizon all year. (they are always there, watching, and listening)
What are Circumpolar Stars?
First fraction of a second after the Big Bang, photons energetic enough created these two types of particles, which upon contact would annihilate one another.
What are matter and anti-matter?
This paradox questions whether information falling into a black hole is truly lost, defying the laws of quantum mechanics.
What is the Black Hole Information Paradox?
These ripples in spacetime were first observed in 2015, caused by the merger of two black holes.
What is Gravitational Waves?
This celestial object can be found at the Galactic Center of almost every large galaxy.
What is a Supermassive Black Hole?
Informal groupings of stars in the night sky that are commonly known. (eg. The Big Dipper)
What are Asterisms?
This theorem states that if f(x) is continuous on [a,b] and differentiable on (a,b), then there exists at least one point c∈(a,b) such that f′(c)=[f(b)−f(a)]/[b−a]
What is the Mean Value Theorem?
The paradox questioning why the sky is not illuminated all the time if the universe is endless and uniformly populated with luminous stars.
What is the Olber's Paradox?
The process by which a black hole slowly evaporates over time due to quantum effects is named after this famous physicist.
These two people have made the first known model of our Galaxy based on observations alone.
What are the Herschels (William and Caroline)?
The apparent displacement of an object because of a change in the observer's point of view. Astronomers use this effect to measure distances to nearby stars
What is the Parallax?
The ex-Disney star, singer, and actor became the CEO and co-founder of the satellite data startup Northwood Space, and earned a JD from Harvard Law School.
Who is (Queen) Bridget Mendler?