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This was the most successful European resistance against the Axis during World War 2.
What is the National Liberation Army?
The Norse god of thunder.
Who is Thor?
The Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of this black hole's shadow and photon sphere in 2019.
What is M87*?
This flight, piloted by Chesley Sullenberger, landed on the Hudson River after both engines were taken out via bird strikes.
What is US Airways Flight 1549?
This aspect of a particle pertains to its inability to have a definite position in space.
What is wave-particle duality?
The Dutch conquered this Swedish colony that was situated along the Delaware River.
What is New Sweden?
Hel, Jörmungand, and Fenrir are the children of this Norse god.
Who is Loki?
What is Hawking Radiation?
The Hindenburg airship was full of this element, which caused it to combust.
What is hydrogen?
These particles only interact through the weak force and gravity; have zero charge and little mass; and can change flavors.
What are neutrinos?
This large Mediterranean island was responsible for unifying Italy in the 19th century.
What is Sardinia?
The first entity to exist in Norse mythology.
Who is Ymir?
This model of a black hole involves a consistent magnetic field being generated by its accretion disk.
What is the MAD (Magnetically Arrested Disk) model?
On September 19, 1783, French physics teacher Pilatre de Rozier launched this hot air balloon with livestock onboard.
What is Aerostat Reveillon?
This field is responsible for giving fermions their mass.
What is the Higgs field?
This failed expedition to Sicily was carried out by the Athenians during the late 5th century BC.
What is the Sicilian Expedition?
One of Odin's wives, and is commonly associated with mountains and hiking.
Who is Skathi?
This process, which is caused by rotating black holes twisting spacetime around them, is responsible for Kerr black holes having two ISCO's and two photon spheres.
What is Frame Dragging?
This aircraft was a long range fighter and would escort heavy bombers to Berlin.
What is the P45 Mustang?
This state of matter occurs when the energy in a system is so great that hadrons break apart, allowing quarks to move freely.
What is quark gluon plasma?
This Norse god had his hand bitten off by Fenrir after placing chains upon him.
Who is Tyr?
This indicates how fast a given black hole spins compared to its theoretical maximum rate of rotation.
What is a spin parameter?
This aircraft dropped "Fat Man" onto Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
What is Bockscar?
These massless particles were degrees of freedom of the Higgs field, before combining with electroweak bosons to give the W and Z bosons their mass.
What are Goldstone bosons?