Black Holes

Structure and Formation

100

The very center of a black hole where all gravity is pulling immensely inward. 

What is Singularity? 

200

The surface of a black hole in which nothing can escape once it is crossed. 

What is Event Horizon? 

300

This is how many times greater than the sun a massive star's mass must be in order to form a black hole upon star death. 

What is 20 times greater? 

400

The layers of dust and gas that emit light orbiting a black hole. 

What is Accretion Disk? 

500

This is how many times greater a massive star's core must be than the sun in order for it to form a black hole. 

What is 3 times greater? 

Categorizing

100

A black hole that is 10 to 100 solar masses. 

What is Stellar Black Hole? 

200

Black holes typically found at the center of a galaxy, including the Milky Way. 

What is Supermassive Black Holes? 

300

Black hole that is100 to 10,000 solar masses.

What is Intermediate Black Hole? 

400

System of two black holes both orbiting one another.

What is Binary Black Holes? 

500

This is how much greater the mass of a black hole must be than the sun in order for it to earn the moniker of Supermassive. 

What is millions - billions? 

Researching

100

This is the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. 

What is Sagittarius A? 

200

This is a form of energy that is often bent or distorted leading to detection of a black hole in space. 

What is light? 

300

This is the primary means by which black holes are detected. 

What is Accretion Disks? 

400

This black hole type can affect the orbit of other stars leading to its detection. 

What is Supermassive? 

500

This is how many light years away scientists estimate Sagittarius A is located from the Earth.

What is 25,000 light years away? 

Interstellar

100

This was the name of BOTH robots that aided in the crews expedition. 

What is TARS & CASE? 

200

This is the name of the scientist that was wiped out in the giant wave on the first planet. 

What is Miller? 

300

This was the name the crew used for the black hole 

What is Gargantua? 

400

This was Murph's ghost. 

Who is Cooper? 

500

This is the name of the scientist that Dr. Brand was in love with, whom ultimately had the planet that could support life. 

Who is Edmunds? 

Past Test Review

100

This is the most common force that often causes a nebula to collapse in on itself initiating star formation. 

What is dying/exploding star? 

200

This is the type of star that the sun is. 

What is average (low-mass) star? 

300

This is the color group that the sun would appear with along the main sequence. 

What is Yellow? 

400

This is the type of star with the greatest luminosity on an H-R diagram. 

What is Massive Star? 

500

This type of fusion results in collapsing of particles onto a star core that explodes off it as a supernova. 

What is Iron (Fe) fusion?