Standard Model
Quarks come in six "flavors": Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, and this final one.
What is Bottom?
This is the universe's ultimate speed limit. (Double Points if you can say how many m/s it is)
What is the speed of light? (300,000,000)
The center of every galaxy
What is a supermassive black hole?
This is the most widely accepted scientific theory for the origin of the universe, starting as a hot, dense singularity.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
The name of a telescope abbreviated JWST
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
These incredibly light, neutrally charged leptons come in three flavors and are famously created by radioactive decay and supernovae.
What are Neutrinos?
On the electromagnetic spectrum, this type of radiation has the highest energy, highest frequency, and shortest wavelength.
What are Gamma rays?
In roughly 4 to 5 billion years, our Milky Way is expected to collide and merge with this neighboring spiral galaxy.
What is Andromeda?
When the early universe cooled enough for atoms to form, it released a "first light" that we still detect today.
What is the CMB (or Cosmic Microwave Background)?
The hardest method of exoplanet hunting
What is direct imaging?
The Standard Model divides all elementary particles into two main groups: Bosons (which carry forces) and this group, which makes up all matter.
What are Fermions?
This technique allows astronomers to figure out the elemental composition of space objects by looking at the unique light spectrum.
What is Spectroscopy?
Galactic collisions can trigger a massive, rapid increase in the birth of new stars, an event that shares its name with a delicious candy.
What is a Starburst?
Another name for the network of galaxies
What is the Cosmic Web?
The two types of telescopes
What are reflector and refractor?
This is the hypothetical, yet-to-be-discovered force carrier boson for gravity.
What is the Graviton?
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) primarily observes the universe using this specific wavelength of light.
What is Infrared?
The shape that galaxies typically form after a collision.
What is elliptical?
The biggest void
What is the Boötes Void?
The name of the curve created from data collected from the transit method
What is a light curve?
This is the name for the hypothetical theory that unifies the Electromagnetic, Weak, and Strong forces, but currently leaves out Gravity
What is the Grand Unified Theory (or GUT)?
n1sin(theta1) = n2sin(theta2)
What is Snell's Law?
The law that states a galaxy's movement is proportional to its distance, v = HoD.
What is Hubble's Law?
A scenario relating to the destruction of the universe we watched a video about
What is false vacuum decay?
The information about an exoplanet we can get from the radial velocity (wobble) method.
What is mass?