Dark Matter
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The year Fritz Zwicky observed dark matter.
What is 1933?
100
The phase in which dark energy over takes dark matter.
What is exponential expansion?
100
Two scientists who contributed to the first theory of black holes in the 1700’s.
Who are John Michell and Pierre-Simon Laplace?
100
Use for dark matter in Futurama.
What is a fuel source for starships?
100
Black holes created directly after the Big Bang.
What are primordial black holes?
200
The manner in which we observe dark matter.
What is the affect it has on what we can see?
200
This scientist poses that the Universe will “die in ice.”
Who is Michio Kaku?
200
Came up with the theory of singularities and defined what and event horizon is.
Who is Karl Schwarzchild?
200
Black hole metaphors in music.
What are mysterious forces, depression, and death?
200
How much more there is in galaxies than what is observed.
What is 5x more?
300
Percent of the universe that is dark matter?
What is 23%?
300
This man coined the term “dark energy.”
Who is Michael Turner?
300
First coined the term ‘black hole’.
Who is John Wheeler?
300
Dark Matter in Final Fantasy.
What is a powerful magical element (enables some attacks)?
300
The name Schwarzchild gave for a point with little volume and infinite mass.
What is singularity?
400
The number of parsecs across dark matter must be to fit within the smallest possible space.
What is 300 parsecs?
400
This stellar explosion is used as the “standard candle,” for measuring the Red Shift.
What is a Type 1A Supernova?
400
A celestial body with a mass greater than THIS will have a gravitational pull so great that it will collapse in on itself when it begins to contract.
What is Chandrasekhar’s limit?
400
Uses for black holes in Star Trek.
What are incubators and power sources?
400
The things that made the black hole pinball game and movie unique.
What are two playing fields and a PG rating?
500
'Standard package' of dark matter.
What is 1,000 light years across and contains 30 million solar masses of material?
500
The three possible outcomes for our Universe.
What are the Big Crunch, Indefinite Expansion, and the Big Rip?
500
Discovered when x-ray emission was detected in an empty part of space, and was observed as it eclipsed a neighboring star.
What is Cygnus X-1?
500
Dark matter in 'His Dark Materials'.
What is Dust (a form of consciousness that kept multiple worlds linked together and 'alive')?
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The two percentages of the Universe that is considered “normal matter.”
What is Intergalactic Gas at 3.6% and Stars, Planets, Moons, etc. at 0.4%?
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